A large number of extremist Jewish settlers desecrated the Aqsa Mosque in Occupied Jerusalem on Monday morning and later in the afternoon.
According to al-Qastal News website at least 272 settlers escorted by police officers entered the Mosque in groups through its Maghariba Gate and toured its courtyards on the second day of the Jewish Hanukkah holiday.
During their tours at the Islamic holy site the settlers received lectures from rabbis about the alleged temple mount and a number of them gathered in the eastern area of the Mosque and performed silent Talmudic prayers.
Meanwhile the Israeli occupation police continued to tighten their restrictions on the entry of Muslim worshipers especially young men and women to the Mosque in the morning prevented many of them from entering the holy site and expelled others from its courtyards.
However dozens of Muslim worshipers were able to gather in the Mosque’s courtyards and chanted religious slogans in protest at the desecration of their holy site by Jewish settlers.
For several days Jewish extremist groups have been inciting their followers on social media to march en masse to the Aqsa Mosque and perform rituals in its courtyards during the eight-day Hanukkah holiday which started yesterday December 18.
