Dozens of Jewish settlers stormed on Tuesday the courtyards of the holy Al-Aqsa Mosque under heavy police protection and performed Talmudic rituals.
Local sources reported that 82 settlers stormed the Al-Aqsa Mosque yards in the morning period of the daily incursions that take place from Sunday to Thursday and in two periods morning and afternoon.
The sources said that settlers broke into the Mosque from the Magharabi Gate and roamed in the eastern region of the holy Islamic site where they performed their prayers under heavy police protection.
Hundreds of settlers have entered Al-Aqsa Mosque during the past weeks and during the so-called sukkot festival after the so-called Temple groups renewed their calls for expanding the incursions into the Mosque’s courtyards.
Al-Aqsa Association For Protection and Maintenance of Islamic Waqf and Holy Places had called on all Muslims in 1948 occupied Palestine and the people of Jerusalem to intensify their presence at Al-Aqsa Mosque to repel the Jewish settlers’ incursions.
Al-Aqsa Association appealed to the people in the occupied lands to buy their needs from Jerusalem’s markets.
These calls come after the occupation authorities had lifted the closure which they imposed for a month on Occupied Jerusalem. During this month they prevented non-residents of the Old City in Jerusalem from reaching the Al-Aqsa Mosque.
