Scores of extremist Jewish settlers desecrated the Aqsa Mosque in Occupied Jerusalem on Sunday morning and later in the afternoon.
At least 134 settlers entered the Mosque in different groups through its Maghariba Gate and toured its courtyards under tight police guard according to local sources.
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 Talmudic prayers.
Meanwhile the Israeli occupation police imposed movement and entry restrictions on Muslim worshipers at the Aqsa Mosque’s entrances and gates.
The Aqsa Mosque is exposed to daily desecration by Jewish settlers and police forces in the morning and the afternoon except on Fridays and Saturdays.
In a related incident the Israeli occupation police cut off electricity to the Qibli prayer building at the Aqsa Mosque where a number of Muslim worshipers were performing I’tikaf (religious retreat) and forced them to leave the holy site.
Local sources said that Israeli police forces encircled the Qibli prayer building cut off power to it and embarked on knocking on its doors and windows forcing dozens of Palestinian men and women who went on retreat inside it to leave it.
