As Tel Aviv continues its crackdown on Palestinians in the occupied West Bank, a member of Knesset has called Israel a "terror state." "We are not afraid of Israel, the terror state," Hanin Zoabi told reporters on Friday. Meanwhile, another Israeli lawmaker, Jamal Zahalka warned that any attempt to damage the al-Aqsa Mosque could lead to “greater escalation.” This is not the first time that Zahalka and Zoabi have openly made remarks against the Israeli regime. In August, Zoabi called herself a “Palestinian” and called for a political solution. She added that the Palestinian people are “still occupied, however, and we cannot break it by force - only through a just political solution and ending the siege and the occupation." Al-Aqsa Mosque has been the scene of clashes between Palestinian worshippers and Israeli settlers and troops in the past few weeks. Palestinians are extremely angry at Tel Aviv’s raids and restrictions, considering them as part of Israel’s plan to Judaize and desecrate the holy site. Palestinians argue that al-Quds is the capital of a future Palestinian independent state, and that its heritage should remain intact. Over the past decades, Israel has tried to change the demographic makeup of al-Quds by constructing illegal settlements, destroying historical sites and expelling the local Palestinian population."Anyone who wants tensions to calm [there] should allow [Muslim] prayer there [to resume] and stop pyromaniacs and provocateurs of all sorts from ascending to it," he said.
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