Hamas challenges Israel over nationalist flag march in Jerusalem

isks provoking another war.

The procession through the narrow streets of the Muslim quarter was always controversial, but legal efforts to ban the event failed, with supporters arguing that it was a legitimate festival marking an extraordinary moment in Jewish history. "They can avoid a war and escalation if they stop this mad ," Bassem Naim, a senior Hamas official, told Reuters in Gaza this week.

For Hamas, it is also a religious affront, given the Old City is home to the Al Aqsa mosque compound, the third holiest site in Islam, which Jews also revere as the Temple Mount - a vestige of their faith's two ancient temples.

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