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SvennoJ on 26 May 2025
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Israeli lawmaker joins UNRWA facility occupation in East Jerusalem

Yulia Malinovsky, a Yisrael Beiteinu party member of the Israeli Knesset, has joined a group that stormed a UN Palestinian refugee agency facility in occupied East Jerusalem.

The Times of Israel reported she set up a makeshift “office” at the building and urged the government to seize control of it.

“Happy Jerusalem Day! Today we mark the day Jerusalem was liberated 58 years ago,” Malinovsky, who previously sponsored a bill to ban the UN agency, said in a social media post.

“And today I am proud to also liberate the former UNRWA headquarters in central Jerusalem. The Israeli government, we are here, you are invited to come and see how sovereignty is applied.”


Israeli group warns of efforts to change ‘rules of the game’ at Al-Aqsa compound

The Israeli NGO Ir Amim, which says that it focuses on issues concerning Jerusalem in the context of the Israel-Palestine conflict, says that “Third Temple activists” have been active during today’s “Jerusalem Day” demonstrations.

The term refers to Israeli Jewish nationalists who hope to see the construction of a Third Temple on the current site of the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound, the third-holiest site in Islam.

“Third Temple activists are everywhere, taking over light rail stations, handing out Third Temple flags, and leaving no doubt about the intentions of the participants in this parade: This is about a deep desire, and an action to change the rules of the game, to build the Third Temple, and to push everyone who is not connected to this vision away from the place,” the group said in a social media post.

“The next time someone tells you that this is all a struggle for equality and freedom of worship, so that Jews can also pray on the Mount, show them these pictures and remind them that this is what we stand against: against those who want to build the Third Temple.”