sentences:  Muslim teaching is that Muhammad passed through Jerusalem on his first journey to heaven.Hamas, which governs the Gaza Strip, claims that all of the land of Palestine (the current Israeli and Palestinian territories) is an Islamic "waqf" that must be governed by Muslims.Christian Zionists often support the State of Israel because of the ancestral right of the Jews to the Holy Land, as suggested, for instance, by the apostle Paul in his letter to the , in the Bible.