Jewish Israeli settlers stormed Al-Aqsa Mosque sanctuary in Jerusalem immediately and waved the Israeli flag across the Islamic web site, in what was a significant incursion.
In line with Jordan’s Division of Islamic Endowments, which has authorized custodianship over the Noble Sanctuary of Al-Aqsa, the settlers stormed by way of the Mughrabi Gate this morning protected by Israeli occupation forces. In footage captured through the incident, one of many settlers may very well be seen waving the Israeli flag, which has apparently not been finished in earlier incursions.
Every time unlawful settlers break into the mosque compound, Muslims are forbidden to wish there. Such incursions have been happening for weeks, however particularly over the previous few days when a couple of thousand settlers have been concerned. They’re reported to have been marking numerous Jewish holidays because the starting of September, similar to Rosh Hashanah, Yom Kippur, and now the Sukkot.
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The Palestinian resistance motion, Hamas, condemned the settlers’ invasion of the holy web site. “This legal enemy [Israel] won’t reap something however loss and remorse from its foolishness,” stated its Jerusalem spokesman Muhammad Hamadeh.
He warned Tel Aviv and the settlers that in the event that they proceed their “makes an attempt to impose the temporal and spatial division of Al-Aqsa Mosque,” then they are going to endure the “flames of response and resistance from all of Palestine.”
In July, Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett ordered occupation forces to offer safety and help to settlers who storm Al-Aqsa Mosque compound in an “orderly and secure” method, giving official state backing to such incidents.
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