Israel’s far-right national security minister Itamar Ben-Gvir has threatened to ban mosques from playing the Islamic call to prayer on Sunday.

In a social media post, Ben-Gvir said he received “dozens of complaints” from residents about how disruptive the call is and that he was acting on them.

“As they do in Europe, as they do in every reformed country in the world, as they do in Arab countries, we also need to address and enforce the issue of noise in mosques,” he said.

He also warned Israeli Muslim critics by saying “I have no intention of blinking.”

According to Israel’s Channel 12 news, new policy could allow Israeli police to enter mosques and confiscate loudspeaker equipment as well as fine mosques for the noise.

Ben-Gvir told Channel 12 that he was “proud” to move forward with the policy of “stopping unreasonable noise from mosques and other sources that has become a hazard for Israel’s residents.”

Arab Islamist Ra’am party chair Mansour Abbas appealed to the Israeli government to “restrain the instigator of the religious war” on X.

“I appeal to the sane in the government and the State of Israel to restrain the instigator of the religious war Ben-Gvir who is trying to fan the flames and drag the Muslim Arab citizens into responding to his provocations. He failed at Al-Aqsa Mosque and today tries to provoke all mosques. Ben-Gvir is constantly trying to sabotage common life in the country and it’s time to put an end to it,” he wrote.

The Adhan or the Islamic call for prayer is a short prayer in Arabic that summons members of the community five times a day every week.

Friday is the traditional weekly holy day for Muslims who gather in mosques for the mandatory jum’ah prayer.

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In 2016, a proposal to limit the volume of the prayer called the Muezzin Bill made its way through the Israeli Knesset and is now under consideration.