Scores of extremist Jewish settlers desecrated the Aqsa Mosque in Occupied Jerusalem on Thursday morning.
At least 73 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 context 15 rabbis from the Religious Zionist Party sent a letter to Israeli premier Benjamin Netanyahu and his far-right security minister Itamar Ben Gvir asking to allow them and their followers to offer animal sacrifices at the Aqsa Mosque on the eve of the Passover holiday.
In their letter they described the practice of providing the Passover animal sacrifice in the Mosque’s courtyards as one of the most important commandments of the Torah and a national interest calling for allowing such ritual as long as the holy site is under Israeli control.
