While there were no announcements of an organized visit to the Temple Mount on Sunday, a member of the Islamic Movement's southern branch told The Jerusalem Post on Saturday evening that the renewed calls for Muslims to arrive in the capital on Sunday had been made after "extremist Jewish elements" had recently made clear their intention to go up to the mount.

"It seems like the extremists don't want to have quiet in Jerusalem or on the Temple Mount," the Islamic Movement member, who asked to remain unnamed, said. "These sorts of things used to happen once every year, or once every two years, but now the provocations have become more frequent."

While a representative from the Temple Mount Institute was unavailable on Saturday night, the recent tensions over the Temple Mount have also seen an increase in calls by prominent rabbis forbidding Jews to access the Temple Mount, based on Jewish law.