The Israeli minister of foreign affairs Yair Lapid led Jewish settlers in a provocative tour of Bab Al-Amoud in Occupied Jerusalem on Sunday evening.
“Lapid participated in assessing the situation of the (Israeli) police station in Jerusalem due to possible tensions in the holy city” Hebrew media reported.
Israeli occupation police set up a fence and a mobile police station near Bab al-Amud in Jerusalem on Saturday according to the Mi’raj platform.
Israeli police seek to impose new conditions in Bab al-Amud area where events had triggered the Saif al-Quds battle in Ramadan last year. Israeli police plan to prevent the gathering of Jerusalemites at Bab al-Amud in order to tighten control on the area.
Lapid’s provocative tour comes three days after storming Al-Aqsa Mosque by the extremist Israeli Knesset member Itamar Ben Gvir with a group of settlers. The settler group led by Ben Gvir performed Talmudic rituals in the Al-Aqsa’s courtyards under the protection of Israeli police.
