Hamas on Friday considered the calls by the so-called Temple Mount groups for Israeli settlers to bring and slaughter sacrifices during the Jewish Passover holiday inside the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound a "dangerous escalation in the religious war and a continuation of Israel's approach to targeting and Judaizing Islamic holy sites."

This came in a statement issued by the Palestinian movement, in which it warned of "the repercussions of these extremist calls."

She stressed that these calls will not change the identity of Al-Aqsa Mosque, nor will they grant the Israeli occupation any legitimacy or right to it.

She added: "We call on the masses of our Arab and Islamic nation to defend Al-Aqsa and support it by all possible means."