Far-right rabbi Yehuda Glick as well as dozens of Jewish settlers on Tuesday forced their way into al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem under tight police guard.
Jerusalem’s Islamic Awqaf Department said in a brief statement that Glick and 211 Israeli settlers accompanied by a large police force stormed al-Aqsa Mosque and carried out provocative tours in the site.
Meanwhile local sources said that the Israeli police handed a number of Palestinian youths who were present in the mosque during the break-in orders to appear before the Israel Intelligence Service for interrogation.
On Monday the Israeli police arrested four Palestinian women at al-Aqsa Mosque and interrogated them for hours before releasing them on condition that they stay away from the holy site for 10 days.
