More than a hundred Israeli settlers have once again stormed al-Aqsa Mosque compound in occupied Jerusalem Wednesday morning via the Israeli-controlled Magharibeh gate.
The settlers were escorted by several groups of Israeli troops which led to a state of tension among Palestinian worshipers.
Earlier on Tuesday the Islamic Awqaf (Endowment) Department in Occupied Jerusalem condemned the Israeli escalation in al-Aqsa after allowing settlers groups to perform Talmudic rituals in the compound.
The department also denounced the settlers’ daily provocative break-ins into the holy Islamic shrine.
Over the past few days Israeli police allowed a group of settlers to perform Talmudic rituals in the Mosque’s courtyard in total provocation to Muslim worshipers.
The department reaffirmed that the whole 144 dunums of the al-Aqsa Mosque is a sacred shrine for Muslims only and no one has the right to make changes on the status quo in the compound.
