Dozens of extremist settlers storm Al-Aqsa under Israeli police protection

QUDS, July 30 (YPA) – Dozens of extremist Jewish settlers stormed the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound on Wednesday morning, under heavy protection from Israeli occupation forces.

According to the Islamic Waqf Department, the settlers carried out provocative tours inside the mosque grounds and performed Talmudic rituals and prayers.

Meanwhile, Israeli forces continued to impose tight restrictions on Palestinian worshippers, seizing their ID cards at the mosque’s outer gates and obstructing their access.

Widespread calls have been issued urging residents of Jerusalem and Palestinians in the occupied interior to mobilize, remain present, and maintain a steadfast presence at Al-Aqsa Mosque.

The calls emphasize the importance of mass turnout and performing prayers at the mosque as a practical response to the occupation’s ongoing violations, and to resist attempts to isolate the holy site from its religious and popular surroundings.

Al-Aqsa Mosque faces near-daily incursions and violations by settlers—except on Fridays and Saturdays—under the protection of Israeli police, in what is widely seen as part of efforts to impose a temporal and spatial division of the mosque.

@E.Y.M