Hamas Media Campaign Urges Attacks on Jews by Palestinians in Israel and West Bank

TEL AVIV—Palestinian militant group Hamas has stepped up a mass-media campaign urging Palestinians in the West Bank and Israel to attack Jews in the wake of clashes between Israeli security forces and Muslims around the Al Aqsa mosque in Jerusalem’s Old City.

On Monday, tens of thousands of Palestinians were greeted at the Al Aqsa mosque by a billboard-size banner showing a Hamas militant with a shoulder-mounted surface-to-air-missile system wishing them a happy Eid al-Fitr holiday and praying for “the liberation” of the mosque by next year. On Saturday, the group’s leader in Gaza, Yahya Sinwar, called on Palestinians outside Gaza to prepare their guns, cleavers, knives or axes for battle, and told them “not to wait for a decision by anyone” before carrying out individual attacks.