OCCUPIED JERUSALEM (PIC)– Groups of Jewish settlers on Sunday morning desecrated the Aqsa Mosque’s courtyards under tight police protection.
The settlers’ unwelcome presence at the Islamic holy shrine provoked the Muslim worshipers there into expressing their protest by chanting religious slogans.
Meanwhile Israeli policemen outside the Aqsa Mosque compound arrested a Palestinian young man and took him in for interrogation.
The Israeli police also restricted the entry of young men and women to the Mosque and confiscated their IDs before allowing them in.
Sheikh Omar al-Kiswani director of the Aqsa Mosque said that a Jewish extremist tried to perform Talmudic rituals near al-Marwani prayer hall before Israeli policemen intervened and escorted him out of the compound.
Sheikh Kiswani added that some settlers described the Mosque as a temple mount and threatened to intensify their desecration of the Islamic holy shrine.