Israeli regime forces on Sunday morning attacked Muslim worshipers and mosque guards after the latter prevented Zionist settlers from performing Talmudic rituals at the Aqsa Mosque in occupied al-Quds (Jerusalem).
Eyewitnesses said that a gang of 25 settlers entered the Mosque at 7:30 in the morning under tight Israeli regime forces before some of them tried to perform rituals at the Mosque's Rahma Gate.
They added that a brawl started with the police escort when guards of the Mosque and some Muslim worshipers intervened to bar the settlers from continuing with their rituals. In another incident, some settlers did some provocative dances as they were leaving the Mosque through the Mosque's Silsila Gate so as to irritate the Muslims there.
Yehuda Etzion, the extremist Jew who tried once to detonate the Aqsa Mosque, also desecrated the Aqsa Mosque in the morning.
A Jewish temple mount group, for its part, provided live coverage of the settlers' break-ins at the Mosque.
Tensions have been running high following an imposition in August 2015 of restrictions on the entry of Palestinian worshipers into the al-Aqsa Mosque compound. The mosque in East Al-Quds is the third holiest site in Islam.
The al-Quds Intifada or uprising was also ignited to end the temporal and spatial division of al-Aqsa Mosque, the Israeli settlement construction, the Judaization schemes, and Israeli regimes brutal attacks on Palestinians.
More than 210 Palestinians, including children and women, have been killed by Israeli forces since the outbreak of the Intifada in the occupied Palestinian territories last October. Some 30 Zionists, mostly Israeli regime troops, have also lost their lives in Palestinian revenge attacks.
source : abna24.com
