Dozens of Jewish settlers stormed the courtyards of the holy Al-Aqsa Mosque on Sunday led by extremist rabbi Yehuda Glick and Farid Assaf the spokesman of the Temple Organizations under heavy police protection and performed Talmudic rituals.
Local sources reported that Yehuda Glick the head of the so-called Temple Mount Heritage Foundation and Farid Assaf the spokesman of the so-called Temple Organizations stormed the Al-Aqsa Mosque yards accompanied by more than 50 Jewish settlers.
Glick was showing a live broadcast of the storming and he and Assaf took photos in the courtyards of the Mosque according to the sources. An altercation happened between Glick and some of the Mosque employees and Palestinian worshipers.
Glick blew the shofar in the Bab al-Rahma cemetery adjacent to the Al-Aqsa Mosque while leaving the Mosque.
The sources stated that the incursion started from the Magharabi Gate and ended at al-Silsila Gate during which Talmudic rituals were performed.
Settler groups storm the Al-Aqsa courtyards daily from Sunday to Thursday during the morning round which lasts for three and a half hours and in the evening for one hour.
Meanwhile dozens of Muslim worshipers flocked to the Al-Aqsa Mosque today to pray al-Fajr (Dawn) prayer after an interruption of almost a month due to the closure under the pretext of the Jewish holidays and coronavirus pandemic.
The settlers were allowed access into the Al-Aqsa while Muslims living more than one kilometer away from the Mosque were being prevented from entering it under the pretext of the lockdown.
Jerusalemite activists warned that the racist Israeli policies against Palestinian Jerusalemites and worshipers who are prevented from accessing the Al-Aqsa Mosque are part of the plans to empty the Al-Aqsa Mosque and divide it.
The Minbar Al-Aqsa Foundation reported that 373 settlers broke into the Al-Aqsa Mosque during the past week and during the Sukkot holiday.
