The Hamas terror group issued an ultimatum to Israel on Monday, saying that if Israel doesn’t remove its security forces from Har Habayis and the east Jerusalem neighborhood of Sheikh Jarrah by 6 p.m., it will attack the Jewish state.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has summoned his senior ministers for a meeting of the Diplomatic-Security Cabinet in the wake of the ongoing escalation in Jerusalem and the Gaza area.
Shortly after the ultimatum expired on 6 p.m. Red Alert sirens were heard in multiple areas in Israel, indicating a likely rocket being fired toward population centers in the vicinity, including in Jerusalem.
Israeli media reported multiple explosions in the capital shortly after those sirens were heard, although it is unclear if these were the actual rockets or their interception by the Iron Dome.
Israeli police evacuated the Western Wall Plaza following the rocket fire.
The IDF is preparing for a significant escalation on the Gaza/Israeli border and has increased forces in the area. The IDF also closed a number of roads on the Israeli side of the border and train service between Be’er Sheva and Ashkelon has been halted. Visitors have been banned from the Zikim beach.
The Hamas ultimatum said that Israel has to release rioters arrested and to withdraw police officers from the Al-Aqsa MOsque on the Temple Mount, where most of the disturbances have taken place in recent days.
The recent tensions were also a result of ongoing disputes between Jewish and Arab residents of Sheikh Jarrah, over contested homes and ownership rights. The Hamas ultimatum said Israel must withdraw forces from that neighborhood as well.
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Biden!
1 rocket was shot down. A house window was broken in mevaseret tzion. No sign of the rockets landing. Were said to have hit open areas. A miracle!
At least 40 rockets fired in ashkalon area.
The IDF should go in and do whatever it takes to wipe out Hamas.
And everyone should do teshuva, since none of this would happen, if H-sh-m decided that there was absolutely no reason, for anyone to suffer.
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Go out and do mivtzoim! If you can’t go out, email or WhatsApp people you know. Any of the ten mivtzoim! And let’s all say tehillim and give extra tzedkah and learn extra Torah please
A bunch of Bedouins in Gaza think they can issue demands and ultimatums?? IDF go flatten Gaza and Hamas once and for all. When President Trump was in office and Nikki Hayley at the UN we didn’t hear a peep from these Arabs terrorist murderers.
The mezuzas of an individual should be checked 2 times in 7 years. Take a moment to think when did I last check my mezuzas, their parchments and their placements in the doorways? Does anyone else need a reminder? Although tefillin do not have this requirement, checking them now is a good thing.