Dozens of Israeli settlers stormed the courtyards of the blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem on Monday, performing Talmudic rituals under the protection of Israeli occupation police.
According to the Jerusalem Governorate, 122 settlers entered Al-Aqsa during the morning raid, in addition to 600 tourists who accessed the mosque compound through the Israeli-controlled “Tourism Gate.”
Local Jerusalem sources reported that the settlers entered in groups through the Moroccan Gate, which remains under full Israeli security control, conducted provocative tours across the courtyards, and performed Talmudic prayers under heavy police escort.
The incursions come amid ongoing Israeli efforts to impose a temporal and spatial division at Al-Aqsa Mosque—an approach Palestinians see as an attempt to change the historical and religious status quo.
The mosque faces these settler intrusions daily, except on Fridays and Saturdays—official holidays in Israel—during both morning and afternoon periods.
Simultaneously, Israeli police imposed strict restrictions on Palestinian worshippers attempting to enter the mosque, checking their IDs and seizing some of them at the compound’s outer gates.
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