Dozens of Jewish settlers stormed on Monday morning the holy Al-Aqsa Mosque under heavy police protection.

The Waqf Authority confirmed that the settlers carried out provocative tours in the courtyards of the Mosque.

The Al-Aqsa Mosque witnesses continuous violations by the Israeli occupation authority and its settlers.

An Israeli court had earlier allowed silent Jewish prayer at Al-Aqsa Mosque sparking fury among Palestinians and the Muslim world.

However the Israeli central court has issued a new decision upholding the ban on Jewish prayer at Al-Aqsa.

Jewish settlers stormed on Monday the holy Al-Aqsa Mosque from the Magharabi Gate under Israeli police protection.

The Islamic Endowments Department in Occupied Jerusalem said that 79 settlers including 20 students of extremist religious institutes performed Talmudic rituals and carried out provocative tours in the courtyards of Al-Aqsa before leaving from the al-Silsila Gate.

Meanwhile the so-called “Temple groups” renewed their calls for a massive storming of the Al-Aqsa Mosque on the 28th of Ramadan in commemoration of the so-called “unification of Jerusalem” day and to revenge for their loss in the vicinity of Bab al-Amud.

In this regard Jerusalemite activist Hinadi al-Halawani stated that Amir Ohana the Israeli Minister of Public Security became an icon for the alleged Temple groups after he allowed them to defile the Mosque in the last ten days of Ramadan especially on the 28th of Ramadan.

For its part the Supreme Islamic Commission and the Council of Scholars and Preachers in Jerusalem called on the Palestinian people to intensify their presence at Al-Aqsa Mosque to repel the Jewish settlers’ incursions.

Dozens of Jewish settlers stormed the courtyards of the holy Al-Aqsa Mosque on Monday morning and performed Talmudic rituals under heavy police protection.

Jerusalemite sources reported that 86 settlers including 40 students of extremist religious institutes stormed the courtyards of the Al-Aqsa Mosque in the morning period during the daily incursions.

The settlers assembled in the al-Rahma Gate and the eastern area of Al-Aqsa Mosque during which they performed provocative Talmudic rituals.

The Israeli police closed the Maghareba Gate after the end of the morning incursions while they continued to evacuate the eastern region and the al-Rahma Gate prayer hall during the settlers’ incursions.

The settler incursions are part of periodic tours aiming to change the fait accompli in the Holy City and Al-Aqsa Mosque.

During the evening incursions the Israeli police provided the settlers an additional half hour between 12:30 and 2:00 instead of 1:30.

The head of the Islamic Supreme Authority in Jerusalem and the preacher of the Al-Aqsa Mosque Sheikh Ikrimah Sabri warned of the seriousness of the recent request of the extremist Jewish groups. They asked to build a Talmudic school in the eastern square of Al-Aqsa to gain a foothold in it after they failed to control and convert the al-Rahma Gate to a synagogue.

Sheikh Sabri warned that the occupation is trying to take away the powers of the endowments in Al-Aqsa and gradually take control of the Holy City.

He pointed out that the temporal and spatial division policy that the occupation is trying to impose began decades ago but Jerusalemites and the Palestinians in 1948 Occupied Palestine responded to that scheme and prevented the imposition of the occupation hegemony on Jerusalem.