Dozens of Jewish settlers stormed al-Aqsa Mosque under heavy police protection on Thursday morning.

The Islamic Endowment Department affirmed that the settlers stormed the holy site in different groups and carried out provocative tours.

The settlers also received lectures from rabbis about the alleged temple mount while a number of them provocatively performed Talmudic rituals.

Meanwhile the Israeli occupation police imposed movement and entry restrictions on Muslim worshipers at the Mosque’s entrances and gates.

Earlier Wednesday Palestinian civil society groups and activists have launched an appeal calling for intensifying Palestinian presence at Al-Aqsa Mosque next Friday.

The appeal called on Palestinians in the West Bank and within the Green Line to head to Occupied Jerusalem and perform dawn prayer at Al-Aqsa.

Al-Aqsa Mosque is exposed to daily desecration by Jewish settlers and police forces in the morning and the afternoon except on Fridays and Saturdays.

Dozens of Jewish settlers stormed on Sunday the courtyards of the holy Al-Aqsa Mosque performed Talmudic rituals and blew the shofar at the Al-Rahma Gate cemetery under heavy police protection.

Local sources reported that the Israeli police present at the Magharabi Gate opened the door for dozens of settlers to storm the Mosque in groups. The Israeli special forces secured the settlers storming of the Mosque’s squares.

The Israeli police forces closed the Magharabi Gate after 47 settlers entered the courtyards of Al-Aqsa Mosque according to the sources.

The extremist rabbi Yehuda Glick stormed the Bab al-Rahma cemetery at the eastern wall of the Al-Aqsa Mosque and blew the shofar near the graves of the Prophet’s Companions and Muslims.

Meanwhile Palestinians of the 1948 occupied Palestine continued Sunday to organize trips to al-Aqsa as part of al-Aqsa “Bayarek” or the convoys’ project.

Al-Aqsa Convoys Association which is active in 1948 occupied Palestine has been running these free journeys to transport Palestinian worshipers by buses from all areas to Jerusalem and the Al-Aqsa Mosque.

The idea of the Al-Aqsa convoys is traced back to several years when the Islamic movement in particular and the people of the 1948 occupied Palestine in general have been organizing those convoys to strengthen the Arab and Islamic presence in Jerusalem and prevent the occupation from imposing its control on the Mosque.

In recent weeks Jerusalem witnessed an escalation in Israeli settler groups’ incursions into the Al-Aqsa Mosque under the pretext of celebrating the Hebrew holidays despite the state of the lockdown imposed on the city.

Meanwhile during the past three days the courtyards of the Al-Aqsa Mosque witnessed massive rallies in support of Prophet Mohammed.

OCCUPIED JERUSALEM (PIC)– Dozens of Jewish settlers stormed on Sunday morning al-Aqsa mosque from the Maghareba gate under the protection of the Israeli police.

Al-Aqsa Foundation for Endowments and Heritage said in a statement that nearly 40 rabbis and Jewish religious leaders stormed Al-Aqsa Mosque in two groups and toured its courtyards.

Media Coordinator of the Foundation Mahmoud Abu Atta pointed out that elements of the occupation’s Special Forces were deployed at Al-Aqsa on high alert and that the Mosque’s guards and the students intensified their presence in the mosque to confront the Israeli raids and violations.

Abu Atta pointed out that the Jewish settlers’ storming of Al-Aqsa Mosque became almost daily routine and warned that they might intensify their raids during Jewish holidays early next month.