@sleepyguy said
I can only guess at their reasons, though I expect simple hate has a lot to do with it, and I'm not trying to excuse them of anything.
From the link below:
"Settlers have been increasing their incursions into the holy site recently, particularly in the wake of the Jewish holiday season.
On 25 September, the second and final day of the Jewish holiday of Yom Kippur, hundreds of settlers forced their way into the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound under protection from Israeli police.
One day after Yom Kippur, settlers were seen in video footage dancing and stomping on Muslim graves at the Bab al-Rahma cemetery near Al-Aqsa Mosque."
https://new.thecradle.co/articles/over-1000-israeli-settlers-storm-al-aqsa-mosque
The Israeli police helped them do it. They wanted to offend the Muslims to get them to react to it. Now they have an excuse to expand the border in a land grab. Israel has no right to defend itself. They deeply offended the Palestinians to deliberately provoke them.
Israel has been systematically stealing Palestinian land and this war will be the excuse to do continue it by military force.