In a clear provocation to the feelings of two billion Muslims around the world. The Zionist settler mobs have escalated their incursions into the blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque with the support of the Zionist enemy government and the protection of the occupation police.
In this context, Endowments and Religious Affairs Ministry in Palestine said in a report issued on Tuesday that the Zionist enemy and its settler mobs have escalated their attacks on the blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque by the number of incursions and the number of intruders.
The ministry explained that the settlers’ prayers have become collective , public and include dancing, singing and prostration (Jewish rituals) in Al-Aqsa, and are held on a daily basis, especially in the eastern area “meters away from “Bab Al-Rahma” chapel under the Zionist enemy forces’ guard , especially during the incursions.
The ministry condemned the statements of the extremist Zionist minister Ben-Gvir, who revealed his intention to build a synagogue in Al-Aqsa to perform Talmudi
c rituals, in addition to the decision of the Zionist enemy government to approve the funding of settler incursions into Al-Aqsa.
The ministry stated that the number of settlers who stormed Al-Aqsa during the month of August reached 7692, the highest number since the beginning of this year, including 2958 settlers who stormed it on the so-called ” Temple destruction anniversary” on August 13, during which they performed religious rituals, raised the flag of the usurper entity, and performed for the first time their rituals in front of the Dome of the Rock from the western side of Al-Aqsa.
The ministry stated that the number of settlers who stormed Al-Aqsa during the month of August reached 7692, the highest number since the beginning of this year, including 2958 settlers who stormed it on the so-called “Temple destruction anniversary” on August 13, during which they performed religious rituals, raised the flag of the usurper entity, and performed for the first time their rituals opposite the Dome of the Roc
k from the western side of Al-Aqsa.
Regarding the Zionist attacks on the Ibrahimi Mosque in Hebron, the Endowments Ministry explained that the enemy prevented the lifting of the call to prayer on 57 times in an attempt to impose temporal and spatial division on it, in addition to the enemy forces issuing a decision to close the Ibrahimi Mosque, boarding the roof of Ashraf corner adjacent to the Ibrahimi Mosque, photographing the place and impeding the work of the firefighting network in the Ibrahimi Mosque, under the pretext of urgent security incidents.
The ministry considers what the enemy is doing a blatant and blatant assault on the powers of the Waqf in the Ibrahimi Mosque, a serious violation of its sanctity, a provocation of Muslims’ feelings, and an attempt to control it.
The report also documents that enemy forces attacked al-Iman Mosque in Qalqilya, where the main door was removed, the mosque was entered and searched, its property was tampered with, and the women’s prayer room was sabotaged, whil
e enemy forces fired gas canisters at worshippers in Omar bin al-Khattab Mosque in Kafr Qaddum town during Friday prayers, trapping part of the worshippers inside the mosque and preventing others from attending the Friday prayers, and the enemy caused the mosque to break its windows.
In Jenin and Tubas, enemy forces stormed Khaled bin al-Walid mosque in the eastern region, demolished , bulldozed parts of the mosque, and burned another mosque in the town of al-Fara’a.
In Tulkarem, the Zionist enemy forces attacked the Martyrs’ Mosque in Tulkarem camp, and it is worth noting that this is not the first attack on the mosques in the governorate, as it was previously preceded by the demolition and vandalism of the Mu’adh bin Jabal Mosque.
Recently, the official Zionist Broadcasting Corporation revealed that the Office of the Presidency of the Zionist entity’s government, in cooperation with the so-called “Heritage Ministry”, decided to start funding organized tours to storm Al-Aqsa Mosque, in a first-of-its-kind
precedent.
The channel stated that the decision stipulates funding the incursions with two million shekels initially, in order to organize the incursions and attach them with guides to “link Al-Aqsa Mosque and its courtyards with Jewish history.”
While the Zionist “Heritage Ministry” said: The decision organizes the incursions “to be with guides who explain to the participants, Jews and tourists, the history of the place and its sanctity to the Jewish people.” According to its claims.
According to official Palestinian data, more than 25,000 settlers stormed Al-Aqsa Mosque in occupied Al-Quds during the first half of this year. It indicated that 23 citizens were martyred in occupied Al-Quds and its suburbs during the same period.
Al-Quds Governorate, the highest governmental local authority representing the city, said: 25 thousand and 54 settlers stormed the mosque during the fait accompli imposed by the Zionist enemy, called the morning and evening periods, with the support of the enemy police, performed
Talmudic prayers and rituals during the incursions.
Throughout the first half of this year, the Zionist enemy authorities continued the siege of Al-Aqsa Mosque, “which they have imposed since October 7 (the date the war on Gaza began) by restricting the entry of Muslim worshippers to it,” according to the governorate.
It is noteworthy that about 23 Palestinians were martyred in Al-Quds Governorate during the first half of the year 2024, including ten children, the youngest of whom was a four-year-old girl, and the Zionist enemy army is holding the bodies of 41 Palestinians martyrs until the end of the first half of the year 2024.
In conjunction with the start of the Zionist-American aggression against Gaza Strip on October 7, the Zionist enemy army intensified its deployment and operations in the West Bank, including occupied Al-Quds, leaving 556 martyrs and 5300 wounded, according to data from the Palestinian Ministry of Health.
The Department of Islamic Endowments in occupied Al-Quds also reported that
more than 48,000 settlers stormed Al-Aqsa Mosque during the past 2023.
An official at the Waqf Department explained that 48,223 settlers stormed the mosque during the past year. He pointed out that 3086 settlers stormed the mosque during the month of December alone.
The Zionist incursions increase significantly during the Jewish holidays, and the enemy authorities unilaterally allowed settler incursions into the mosque in 2003, despite protests by the Islamic Endowments Department in Al-Quds and its demand to stop them.
Al-Quds Governorate warns that the violations of the Zionist enemy and the settler mobs in the occupied Al-Quds , the blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque and at its gates are a prelude to the spatial division of the mosque.
It is worth mentioning that the Zionist enemy government is seeking with all its means to divide Al-Aqsa Mosque temporally and spatially, by preventing Palestinian worshippers from entering Al-Aqsa, while facilitating the entry of settlers into the mosque. It is taking advantage of
the genocidal war on Gaza Strip, which led to the martyrdom of more than 41,020 Palestinians, mostly children and women, and the injury of more than 94,925 others, since October 7, in order to resolve the battle in Al-Aqsa in favor of the extremist Temple Mount groups.
Source: Yemen News Agency