Scores of extremist Jewish settlers desecrated the Aqsa Mosque in Occupied Jerusalem on Wednesday morning and later in the afternoon.
According to al-Qastal News website at least 318 settlers escorted by police officers entered the Mosque in groups through its Maghariba Gate and toured its courtyards on the fourth day of the Jewish Hanukkah holiday.
During their tours at the Islamic holy site the settlers received lectures from rabbis about the alleged temple mount and a number of them performed Talmudic prayers in the eastern area of the Mosque and at the entrances leading to it.
Some of those settlers also carried out different provocative practices such as dancing and stretching out their bodies on the ground during their tours inside the Mosque or at its gates.
Police officers reportedly detained one of the Aqsa Mosque guards after he objected to the presence of a settler wearing a T-shirt with an Israeli flag printed on its back.
Meanwhile the Israeli occupation police continued to tighten their restrictions on the entry of Muslim worshipers especially young men and women to the Mosque in the morning prevented many of them from entering the holy site and expelled others from its courtyards.
For several days Jewish extremist groups have been inciting their followers on social media to march en masse to the Aqsa Mosque and perform rituals in its courtyards during the eight-day Hanukkah holiday which started last Sunday.
