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Israel is set to block Palestinians released under a Gaza ceasefire and prisoner exchange deal from entering Al-Aqsa Mosque in occupied East Jerusalem during Ramadan, Anadolu reported.

According to Anadolu, men over 55 and women over 50 will be granted permits, while those recently freed from Israeli prisons will be banned from the site.

Israeli police plan to deploy 3,000 officers daily at checkpoints leading to East Jerusalem and Al-Aqsa throughout the fasting month.

Authorities have also recommended restricting entry for West Bank Palestinians to just 10,000 permits.

The Palestinian Prisoners Club reported on Monday that Israeli occupation forces have detained 365 Palestinians from Jenin and Tulkarm since launching their latest assault on the northern occupied West Bank more than a month ago.

The Israeli newspaper Yedioth Ahronoth, citing an unnamed source, reported that Israel is willing to free Palestinian prisoners whose release was previously delayed.

However, it demands the return of four Israeli bodies today, Monday, and insists there be no so-called "humiliating" ceremony like the last time.

The Israeli Peace Now movement has revealed that the Higher Planning Council is set to approve a plan on Wednesday for the construction of 1,170 settlement units in the occupied West Bank.

"The Israeli government is making clear, week after week, and day after day, what it envisions for our future: a future of permanent illegal occupation, apartheid, dispossession, and violence. These approvals of settlement housing units will not bring security to Israelis or Palestinians—on the contrary, they will deepen the conflict, fuel violence, and push a political solution further away. This reckless expansion policy must be stopped before it is too late," said the Israeli Peace Now movement.

Despite decades of United Nations condemnation and repeated calls for an end to settlement expansion, Israel continues to entrench its occupation.

The UN considers all Israeli settlements in occupied territory illegal under international law, warning that they undermine any prospects for a two-state solution.

Since launching its war on Gaza, Tel Aviv has intensified settlement construction, openly discussing annexation and doubling down on its rejection of an independent Palestinian state.

The Nour Shams Camp Committee in Tulkarm has condemned Israel’s ongoing destruction of the refugee camp, reporting that more than 9,000 residents have been forced to flee since the assault began.

“The occupation has demolished more than 10 houses in the camp since the beginning of the aggression,” the committee stated, accusing Israel of systematically targeting civilian infrastructure.

It also confirmed that Israeli forces have “completely destroyed the infrastructure” of Nour Shams, leaving the camp in ruins.

Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan has warned against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s “attempt to return to war in Gaza” and called for an immediate halt to Israel’s military operations in the occupied West Bank.

“We completely reject any attempt to displace the residents of the Gaza Strip,” Fidan stated, accusing Israel of using its military power to destabilise the region. “Israel is trying to develop a project to weaken the countries of the region and is dragging it into the abyss.”

He condemned Netanyahu’s government for its ongoing “genocide and expansion” in Lebanon, Syria, and the West Bank, as well as its relentless efforts to expel Palestinians from their land. Fidan stressed the urgent need for a two-state solution, stating that it remains the only viable path to peace and has broad support from regional nations.

The head of the Prisoners and Freed Prisoners Affairs Authority has denounced Israel’s refusal to release the seventh batch of Palestinian detainees, calling it a “crime” that exposes the occupation’s “immoral and inhuman mentality.”

“This manipulation and delay have caused a state of tension and confusion for the prisoners’ families,” the official stated, condemning Israel’s continued stalling tactics. He urged Egyptian and Qatari mediators to apply pressure on Israel’s negotiating team to ensure the release happens without further obstruction.

According to the authority, intensive discussions are ongoing with multiple parties, stressing that Israel “will be forced” to comply in the coming hours or days.

Brazil’s Foreign Ministry has voiced “deep concern” over Israel’s escalating military raids on refugee camps in Jenin, Tulkarem, and Nur al-Shams in the occupied West Bank.

In a statement, it denounced Israel’s use of tanks, military occupation, and the “the forced displacement of approximately 40,000 residents from these camps, in violation of international law and international humanitarian law.”

The ministry also demanded that Israel allow uninterrupted humanitarian aid and permit Unrwa to continue its work “for the benefit of the refugee population.”

Citing a 2024 advisory opinion from the International Court of Justice, which ruled Israel’s occupation illegal, Brazil urged an immediate halt to military operations in the West Bank.

Dr Basem Naim, a member of Hamas’ political bureau, stated that any negotiations with Israel via mediators would only proceed once all 620 Palestinian prisoners, agreed upon in the deal, are released.

This was in exchange for four corpses and six Israeli prisoners freed on Saturday.

"The mediators must ensure that the enemy adheres to the terms of the agreement as outlined in the agreed-upon text," he said.

The Israeli prime minister’s office announced at the weekend that it would postpone the release of Palestinian captives, using unsubstantiated claims of Hamas violating the ceasefire agreement as justification.

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres expressed deep concern over escalating Israeli settler violence in the occupied West Bank and ongoing violations.

“I am gravely concerned by the rising violence in the occupied West Bank by Israeli settlers and other violations, as well as calls for annexation,” Guterres told the United Nations Human Rights Council in Geneva.

Guterres added that the fragile ceasefire between Israel and Hamas in Gaza must be upheld. "We must avoid at all costs a resumption of hostilities. The people in Gaza have already suffered too much," he said.

The Palestinian news agency Wafa reported that dozens of Israeli settlers entered Al-Aqsa Mosque’s courtyards through the Moroccan Gate on Monday morning.

Meanwhile, there have been growing calls in Israel to limit the presence of Muslim worshippers at Al-Aqsa Mosque during Ramadan.

An Australian army officer has been stripped of his security clearance after the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation (Asio), the domestic intelligence and national security agency determined he was more loyal to Israel than Australia and vulnerable to exploitation by Mossad.

During an Asio interview, the officer admitted he did not consider Israel a foreign government and would disclose classified information to the Israeli army if requested, The Gurdian reported.

Asio also found that the officer, who is Jewish and had served in the Australian military for 19 years, failed to inform Australian authorities about security, self-defence, and firearms training he had undertaken in Israel, despite not being an Israeli citizen.

The report said that the officer, anonymised as HWMW, is "vulnerable to influence or coercion to enable acts of espionage or foreign interference by Israeli Intelligence Services due to his loyalty to Israel.”

Israeli settlers, backed by occupation forces, set fire to an agricultural structure in Abu Shaban village, east of Yatta, south of Hebron in the occupied West Bank.

Osama Makhamreh, an activist opposing Israel’s settler expansion in Masafer Yatta, told the Palestinian media outlets Wafa that armed settlers, under military protection, torched the property of Ali Ayesh Qaraish and scrawled racist slogans on it.

Makhamreh added that this is part of a sustained effort to drive Palestinians from Masafer Yatta. Days earlier, settlers burned another resident's vehicle, daubed his home with racist graffiti, and attempted to storm another family's residence.