Israel allowed a right-wing march through the Old Quarter of Jerusalem New Israel-Palestine Conflict

A statement from Netanyahu’s office says the march is “in a format” that police and organizers will agree on.

The Israeli government has said that a controversial march by far-right nationalists and pro-settler groups through the Old City of East Jerusalem will take place next week, due to security concerns and the decision was canceled a day later.

Some right-wing Israeli groups staged a so-called “Flag March” on Thursday through the Damascus Gate of the Old Walled City and its Muslim neighborhood, where Hamas (the group that governs the besieged Gaza Strip) received warnings if it was to move forward to renew its enemies.

Far-right groups canceled the march when police denied them permission. But after a meeting of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s cabinet on Tuesday, his office said ministers have approved a march next week.

“The parade will take place next Tuesday (June 15) in a format to be agreed by the police and parade organizers,” Netanyahu’s office said.

A senior Hamas official, Khalil al-Hayya, warned Israel on Monday “not to allow a march east of Jerusalem and the Al-Aqsa mosque complex.”

“We hope the message will be clear so that it does not become Thursday [a new] May 10, ”he said, referring to the start of an 11-day fighting between Israel and Hamas last month.

At least 254 Palestinians, including 66 children, were killed in the Israeli bombing by Gaza health authorities, and Israeli officials said 12 people in Israel, including two children, were killed by rocket attacks by armed groups based in Gaza in Israel.

After several weeks of escalating tensions, the Israelis in Gaza came about the forced displacement of several Palestinian families from Sheikh Jarrah, an occupied Palestinian neighborhood in East Jerusalem, trying to expel Jewish settlers for decades.

The situation escalated when Israeli police stormed the Al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem’s Old Quarter, the third holiest site in Islam, and injured hundreds of Palestinian worshipers in a matter of days.

Netanyahu will end his long tenure in power on Sunday when the country’s legislature is in place is scheduled to vote they came together to dismantle it by accepting the government of various parties.

If that vote is successful, promising Prime Minister Naftali Bennett and her opposition leader Yair Lapid will decide whether to continue the march.

Labor politician Gilad Kariv, a supporter of the coalition challenging Netanyahu, said the move was “another chapter in the government’s attempt to leave the burning ground.”

It is likely that tensions will remain whether or not the marches in Jerusalem will move forward.