Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir led a group of settlers into Al-Aqsa Mosque compound in Jerusalem on Sunday, where they performed Talmudic prayers — marking his third such incursion in 2026 and his 13th since the Gaza war began in October 2023. The Palestinian presidency condemned the raid as a flagrant violation of the historic and legal status quo, warning that it is part of a broader policy aimed at imposing a temporal and spatial partition of the site, and called on the international community to compel Israel to halt its unilateral actions in Jerusalem. Hamas echoed the condemnation, urging Arab and Muslim states to take urgent action to stop what it called the desecration of the mosque, while PLO officials cautioned that such moves risk shifting the conflict from a political dispute into an open religious confrontation with explosive consequences.