Illegal Zionist settlers urge animal slaughter at al-Aqsa Mosque during their festival

The illegal Zionist settlers have renewed their calls to be allowed to perform animal slaughter at the al-Aqsa Mosque compound in al-Quds to mark a holiday despite widespread opposition from the Muslim community and potential backlash from Palestinians.

The calls were made in a letter signed by 15 rabbis and addressed to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and far-right security minister, Itamar Ben-Gvir on Thursday, ahead of the holiday of Passover, which is set to commence on April 5 and this year coincides with the blessed month of Ramadan.

This is while the al-Aqsa Mosque — the third-holiest site in Islam — is forbidden to non-Muslim prayers and rituals based on decades-long international agreements.

While the Israeli cabinet has long resisted such calls for fear of a massive backlash from the global Muslim community and Palestinian people, a number of figures in the new extremist Israeli cabinet have supported allowing Jewish worship on the site.

Israeli settler incursions into al-Aqsa Mosque have recently been on the rise in light of the arrival of a new far-right extremist regime led by Netanyahu.

Such mass settler break-ins almost always take place at the behest of Tel Aviv-backed temple groups and under the auspices of the Israeli police in al-Quds, leading to daily confrontations with Palestinians at the mosque, with many injured, arrested and killed

The issue has been a major flashpoint between the Israeli occupation and Palestinians for decades.

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