Israel wants to also erase Palestine from history...

What happened yesterday at Al-Aqsa Mosque was not an ordinary provocation or a usual settler raid. Under the leadership of Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir, 4,248 settlers entered the courtyard of Al-Aqsa Mosque under heavy police protection. Among them were ministers, members of parliament, rabbis, and leaders of "Temple" organizations. They performed Talmudic rituals, prostrated, and sang hymns. Ben-Gvir, in a statement made in the courtyard of Al-Aqsa, said, "Jews now worship much more freely on the Temple Mount than before," effectively declaring Israel's long-standing step-by-step strategy openly, accompanied by a display of power and defiance.

It would be insufficient to read this event merely as a new and further act of disrespect toward Al-Aqsa Mosque. Because what is happening in Palestine today is not three separate crises. Gaza, the West Bank, and Jerusalem are three fronts of the same strategy. In Gaza, people are being destroyed; in the West Bank, land is being emptied; in Jerusalem, history and identity are being rewritten.

What is happening in Gaza is not a war, and what is happening in the West Bank is certainly not isolated security incidents. But genocidal Zionist Israel wants these to appear that way, and until now, it has managed to imprint this image on all of the world's official institutions. However, this image can no longer be sold to anyone. The latest reports from the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) show that it is now clearly visible that what is happening in the occupied Palestinian territories are different fronts of a single strategy.

According to the UN's latest assessments, millions of people in Gaza are being forced to relocate repeatedly. Constant evacuation orders, demolished neighborhoods, hospitals rendered inoperable, collapsed water and sewage infrastructure, and the threat of starvation and epidemics have made it impossible for people to lead a normal life. OCHA reports reveal that access to food and clean water has dropped to critical levels, the health system has largely collapsed, and the living conditions of the civilian population are becoming more severe every day.

In the West Bank, a quieter but equally destructive process is being carried out. Of course, its quietness is again related to the world's threshold of hearing—otherwise, the violations being committed there are screamingly loud. Increasing military operations, checkpoints, house demolitions, confiscation of agricultural lands, settler attacks, and the gradual restriction of freedom of movement are making life unsustainable for Palestinians in their own lands, rather than directly exiling them. The phenomenon that international law defines as "forced displacement" is no longer just showing up at the door with a gun; it is creating conditions in which people cannot live, compelling them to emigrate. This is precisely the most important danger that OCHA highlights.

What distinguishes this from previous violations is that this initiative is no longer an isolated provocation. This is a display of arrogant and brazen insolence, where bigoted Zionists no longer even feel the need to provide a justificatory explanation for their crimes. According to an assessment by the Jerusalem Governorate, the Israeli government is now attempting to create new political and legal faits accomplis at Al-Aqsa Mosque. Settlers have been permitted to perform Talmudic rituals, prostrate, and sing hymns aloud; Muslim access has been largely blocked; and for the first time, a permanent shade structure has been erected in the eastern courtyard for settlers. Temple groups have openly declared that they aim to bring 5,000 or more settlers to these raids in the coming years.

All of this shows that Israel is now attempting to directly transform religious and historical identity without even feeling the need for security policy rhetoric. The goal, of course, is not merely to visit Al-Aqsa Mosque; it is to effectively abolish the historical status quo that has been recognized by international law for centuries, to establish a temporal and spatial division, and ultimately to create a new order in which sovereignty belongs indisputably to Israel.

At this point, Gaza, the West Bank, and Jerusalem become parts of the same picture. In Gaza, people are being killed by bombs; in the West Bank, people are being forced to emigrate through the destruction of living conditions; in Jerusalem, memory, history, and sacred sites are being transformed. In one place, demography is being altered; in another, geography; in the third, history is being rewritten.

This is no longer merely occupation. This is a comprehensive strategy of elimination aimed at destroying all conditions of existence of a people. Genocide is not only committed by killing people; uprooting a society from its land, destroying its cultural and religious heritage, and leaving it without a future are also parts of the same process.

Unfortunately, the attitude of the international community also contributes to the deepening of this tragedy. The UN finally publishes reports, international courts issue rulings, human rights organizations document violations; but all of this is insufficient to change the reality on the ground. Where law is not enforced, power replaces justice. Palestine has today become a test of conscience not only for Israel, but for the entire international system.

In essence, these initiatives are an open challenge not only to Palestinians, but to the entire Islamic world. Because Al-Aqsa Mosque is not only the property of Palestinians, but the first qibla and common trust of all Muslims.