OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC)
Scores of extremist Jewish settlers desecrated the Aqsa Mosque in Occupied Jerusalem on Tuesday morning, amid tight restrictions on the entry of Muslim worshipers to the holy site.
According to local sources, at least 304 settlers entered the Mosque through its Maghariba Gate and provocatively toured its courtyards under police protection.
During their tours at the Islamic holy site, the settlers received lectures from rabbis about the alleged temple mount and a number of them provocatively performed provocative dances and Talmudic prayers in the eastern area of the Mosque.
In a serious violation, some settlers recited the so-called Birkat Kohanim (priestly blessing) prayer in front of the stairway of the Dome of the Rock plateau in the Aqsa Mosque compound, with one of them wearing a Jewish prayer shawl (Tallit).
Meanwhile, the Israeli occupation police imposed movement and entry restrictions on Muslim worshipers at the Aqsa Mosque’s entrances and gates and prevented many of them from entering the holy site.
