Hundreds of Zionist settlers storm Al-Aqsa Mosque

OCCUPIED PALESTINE, Oct. 05 (YPA) – Hundreds of Zionist settlers escorted by occupation police broke into the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound in occupied al-Quds (Jerusalem) on Wednesday morning, to mark the so-called Jewish holiday of Yom Kippur.

Jerusalem’s Islamic Waqf confirmed that hundreds of Israeli settlers broke into the mosque in groups, each group consisted of 40 settlers, performed Talmudic rituals and listened to Talmudic explanations, marking the Jewish holiday of Yom Kippur which takes place on Tuesday and Wednesday.

The settlers stormed the mosque through the Al-Mughrabi Gate, one of the Gates of the Old City of Jerusalem and is under full-occuption control, and left it through the Al-Silsila Gate.

Earlier in the day, the Israeli occupation soldiers raided the mosque to make way for settlers to break into the holy site.

The occupation forces attacked Palestinian worshipers inside the mosque, raided the prayer halls, blockaded worshipers inside the al-Qibli Mosque and arrested some worshipers to empty the courtyards of its worshipers to secure the settlers’ entry.

E.M