As Palestinian officials have been threatening a religious war if Jews go to the Temple Mount on Thursday and unfurl and Israeli flag while singing songs, Israeli police issued a statement that no such thing will happen.
Most Palestinian media are not publishing the denial, instead concentrating on the incitement and urging Arabs to come en masse and "defend al Aqsa." But some Palestinian arabic news media are reporting the Israeli police denial that any provocative actions will happen.
The articles put quote marks around the statement, but it is not even close to what the police statement said.
We call on the public not to listen to fake news and this wild incitement, which is mostly spread on social media by hostile parties with a foreign interest. It will be clarified that there is no change and no change is planned in the status quo that has existed for many years on the Temple Mount and the holy places in general, both in the context of Muslim prayers there or of tourist visits from abroad and Israelis according to accepted visiting hours. Anyone who upsets the order, incites violence, riots and acts of violence of any kind - will be treated harshly and with zero tolerance. Any support, identification or activity within the framework of terrorist organizations will be handled by the security forces with determination and with all the forces and means at our disposal.
"No change will be made in the arrangements for the Jews to storm Al-Aqsa tomorrow,. These procedures have been followed for years. There will be no change in the settlers' behavior in the courtyards of Al-Aqsa tomorrow, and there is no change to the status quo, and that the settlers' incursions are part of the procedures followed for years and at specific hours."
They even lie with quotes!
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