Israeli police officers on Sunday morning stormed the Aqsa Mosque’s Bab al-Rahma prayer without removing their shoes.
Video footage circulated on social media showed police officers defiling the prayer area and its carpet with their shoes.
Such practice by the police has drawn widespread condemnation by Palestinian Awqaf officials and social media activists.
In recent months Israeli police forces desecrated the same mosque area several times and confiscated pieces of furniture from inside it.
