The Israeli occupation police on Sunday morning was forced to prevent groups of Jewish settlers from entering the Aqsa Mosque through al-Maghariba Gate after dozens of thousands of Palestinian worshipers flocked to the Islamic holy site and performed the Eid prayers inside and outside it.
Hundreds of Jerusalemites also rallied outside the Mosque and chanted slogans against Jewish settlers who had already announced intents to desecrate the Mosque during the first day of Eid al-Adha.
A few days ago extremist Jewish groups had incited their followers and supporters to force their way into the Aqsa Mosque on Sunday the first day of Eid al-Adha to mark the anniversary of what they called the destruction of the temple mount.
In response to such incitement the Higher Islamic Commission in Occupied Jerusalem the Council for Awqaf and Islamic Affairs and the Council of Fatwa called on all Mosques around the Old City of Jerusalem to close on Eid al-Adha in order to allow more people to join Eid Al-Adha prayers at the Aqsa Mosque compound as a means “to protect the Mosque” against settlers’ intended break-ins.
