Hezbollah terror group leader Hassan Nasrallah on Wednesday warned that if Israel “violates” mosques on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem it will cause “an explosion in the region,” adding his threats to those of Palestinian terror groups over the contentious Jerusalem Day Flag March.
The Flag March generally attracts thousands of hardline Israeli nationalists who march through the Old City’s Muslim Quarter to reach the Western Wall to mark the anniversary of the city’s unification in 1967. This year’s event will take place on Sunday.
In a speech to mark the anniversary of Israel’s May 25, 2000 withdrawal from its security zone in southern Lebanon, Nasrallah warned against any provocations in the coming days.
“I want to tell the enemy’s government… and those concerned with the regional situation. Any violation of the Al-Aqsa Mosque and the Dome of the Rock will blow apart the region,” Nasrallah said. “It will provoke all the Arab and Islamic peoples and every free person.”
The Dome of the Rock and the adjacent Al-Aqsa Mosque stand on the flashpoint Temple Mount, the holiest place in Judaism. The Al-Aqsa Mosque is the third holiest in Islam.
“They must know that attempting to aggress against Al-Aqsa and the Islamic and Christian holy sites in Jerusalem may lead — no, will lead — to an explosion in the region,” he said.
Al-Mayadeen, a Lebanese network close to the Hamas and Hezbollah terror groups, reported that Palestinian terror groups have not ruled out a “response” from Gaza should there be “provocations” during Sunday’s Flag March.
“The response to the provocations will be from all the arenas, including Gaza,” Al-Mayadeen said the terror groups passed on to Egyptian and international mediators.
“The resistance informed mediators that it will not allow settler thuggery in Jerusalem,” the agency said.
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