An activist identifying with the "Returning to the Temple Mount" group was arrested Sunday morning while making his way to the Mount carrying a goat intended for a sacrifice.
The activist was detained at the gates of Jerusalem’s Old City by police officers who prevented him from continuing toward the Mount. The Honenu legal organization is representing him.
Following the arrest, the "Returning to the Temple Mount" movement said: "After 2,000 years, the time has come to renew the sacrificial service."
"Especially now, when a ceasefire has been signed ending the 'Al-Aqsa Flood' (October 7 massacre - ed.) war, it is our duty to remember how we must defeat Hamas and what we are fighting for - Jewish sovereignty and the renewal of the sacrificial service on the Temple Mount."
The movements statement added: "Yes - we don't know where the mizbeach is located, we don't know who is really a Kohen, we are all Tamei Meit and thus forbidden from entering the place of the Beit Hamikdash and other issues - but those are only minor details in our struggle to go against the Torah for political reasons."
