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PA daily refers to visits of Jews to the Temple Mount as “invasions” of “settlers,” and refers to “alleged ‘Temple organizations’”

Headline: “The Jewish Temple groups call to invade the Al-Aqsa Mosque this coming Sunday”
     “‘The alleged Temple organizations’ began to tweet the hashtag ‘2,000 on Jerusalem Day,’ whose goal is to cause at least 2,000 settlers to invade the [Al-Aqsa] Mosque by this day [Jerusalem Day, May 13, 2018].”

"Alleged Temple organizations" refer to religious Jewish movements including the Temple Mount Institute, the Temple Mount Heritage Foundation, The Initiative for Jewish Freedom on the Temple Mount and Students for the Temple Mount, which spread awareness of the importance of the Temple Mount in Judaism and encourage people to visit the site.

The PA and its leaders consider all of the Temple Mount an integral part of the Al-Aqsa Mosque. Therefore they view any presence of Jews on the mount as an “invasion.” It should be noted that Jews who visit the Temple Mount only enter some sections of the open areas, and do not enter the Al-Aqsa Mosque or the Dome of the Rock.

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