Spokesperson for Hamas Movement in Occupied Jerusalem Muhammad Hamada called on “the Palestinian people to keep protesting the colonial settlers’ incursions into the al-Aqsa Mosque and their schemes to desecrate it by carrying out Talmudic rituals in its courtyards under the protection of Israeli occupation forces.”
Hamada hailed “all courageous Palestinian freedom fighters from occupied Jerusalem the West Bank and the 1948 occupied territories who are determined to defend the blessed al-Aqsa Mosque in face of the colonial settlers’ incursions aimed to change its Islamic features and Judaize it.”
The al-Aqsa Mosque and its defenders need strong support from the Arab and Islamic nations and the world’s free peoples against the colonial settlers’ violations that come at the so-called Jewish holidays he added.
Since the early morning hours Israeli police forces were deployed in large numbers at the entrances to al-Aqsa preventing Palestinian worshipers’ access and paving the way for hundreds of Jewish settlers under the pretext of the so-called Hebrew New Year.
Palestinian worshipers were violently attacked and pushed back including women. Some of them were besieged at the tribal prayer hall amid heavy firing of teargas and sound bombs.
In recent days the Israeli police issued orders banning a number of Islamic Awqaf employees and Muslim worshipers from entering the Aqsa Mosque for different periods and allowed scores of settlers to desecrate it under the pretext of the Jewish holidays.
