Some of the points written by the Middle East Monitor in this article:

• On that fateful day in August 1929, Arab-Palestinians in Jerusalem were incited to violence by rumours that Jews were planning to appropriate what is known to Muslims as the Noble Sanctuary of Al-Aqsa and destroy the mosques there. The late Israeli historian Haim Gerber pointed out that in numerous documents written by Zionist leaders in the late 1920s they expressed the will to demolish the buildings on the “Temple Mount” to make space for a new Jewish Temple.
• While the spark of the Hebron massacre – part of the so-called 1929 Palestine riots, in which a total of 133 Jews and 116 Arabs were killed – is indeed linked to Jerusalem, the deeper roots are to be found in Hebron itself, where Arabs and Jews had lived together for centuries without any particular tension, and often spoke the same language. The most notable exception to this was in 1775, when members of Hebron’s Jewish community were unjustly accused of having killed the son of a local sheikh and were obliged to pay a heavy fine.

The following is mentioned in the Hamas charter published by the Middle East Monitor:

• Article 16 of Hamas’ 2017 charter states that “Hamas affirms that its conflict is with the Zionist project not with the Jews because of their religion. Hamas does not wage a struggle against the Jews because they are Jewish but wages a struggle against the Zionists who occupy Palestine. Yet, it is the Zionists who constantly identify Judaism and the Jews with their own colonial project and illegal entity.”

• The Hamas charter of 2017 emphasizes that Islam “provides an umbrella for the followers of other creeds and religions who can practice their beliefs in security and safety. Hamas also believes that Palestine has always been and will always be a model of coexistence, tolerance and civilizational innovation.” Hamas calls for the resistance of military occupation, a right sanctioned under UN General Assembly resolution 37/43 of 1982.