On Monday morning, dozens of extremist settlers stormed the blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque, from Al-Mughrabi Gate, with close protection from the Israeli occupation police.
The occupation police provided full protection for the storming settlers, starting with their entry through the Mughrabi Gate, wandering around Al-Aqsa Square and ending with their exit from Bab Al-Silsila.
The media official in the Islamic Endowments Department in occupied Jerusalem, Firas al-Dibs, stated in a statement that 121 settlers stormed the Al-Aqsa courtyards during the morning period, and wandered in different parts of its courtyards.
He explained that the settlers received explanations about the alleged "Temple", and performed Talmudic rituals in the Al-Aqsa Mosque, specifically on the eastern side of it.
He pointed out that the occupation forces stationed at the gates continued to impose restrictions on the entry of worshipers, and checked their identity cards, and detained some of them at external doors.
On Sunday morning, the occupation police transformed the vicinity of the Al-Aqsa Mosque into a military barracks, and deployed in large numbers its personnel and special forces at the gates of the mosque and in the vicinity of the Old City, and attacked worshipers arriving to Al-Aqsa, and took a number of young men from inside the mosque.
The occupation authorities deported eight female Jerusalemite citizens from Al-Aqsa Mosque for a week, provided that they return after a week to receive a new 6-month deportation decision.
It also summoned more than 10 female Jerusalem women for interrogation as soon as they left the mosque, and detained them for hours in the "Al-Qishla" center in Old Jerusalem.
Al-Aqsa Mosque is subjected to continuous Israeli incursions by settlers and the occupation police, and attempts to prevent its reconstruction, as well as the imposition of strict restrictions on its visitors, and other practices.
Since the occupation of Jerusalem in 1967, the occupation authorities have controlled the keys to the Mughrabi Gate, and through it the daily incursions of settlers and occupation forces are carried out.
