The Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) said that the Israeli occupation's decision to finance "Zionist tours to Al-Aqsa Mosque is a dangerous escalation and playing with fire that will lead the region to a religious war."

The movement called on "the masses of our Arab and Islamic nation to rally and demonstrate against the crimes of the occupation."

The extremist Israeli Minister of National Security, Itamar Ben-Gvir, recently announced his intention to establish a Jewish synagogue in Al-Aqsa Mosque, based on what he described as “equality between the rights of Muslims and Jews to perform prayers inside the mosque.”

Ben Gvir's statements came about two weeks after he stormed Al-Aqsa Mosque, accompanied by hundreds of settlers who performed some Talmudic prayers inside the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound.