Some claim the October 8th attack was to kill the cows. Specifically hamas spokesman Abu Obeida. Who states the bringing of the red cows is antagonistic. They have also said this act will encourage Jewish migration to the Temple Mount, bloodshed, and the destruction of their mosque.

“We look back 100 days to remember the educated, the complicit, and the incapacitated among the world powers governed by the law of the jungle, reminding them of an aggression that reached its peak against our path (Al-Quds) and Al-Aqsa, with the start of its actual temporal and spatial division, and the “bringing of red cows as an application of a detestable religious myth designed for aggression against the feelings of an entire nation in the heart of its Arab identity, and the path of its prophet (the Night Journey) and Ascension to heaven.”

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