Al-Aqsa Mosque Compound Sanctity Violated by Zionist Settlers Again
The extremists carried out rituals at the occupied East Jerusalem al-Quds site, according to sources cited by the official Palestinian news agency Wafa.
The move marked a violation of the longstanding status quo arrangement governing Al-Aqsa mosque, which reserves prayer there for Muslims.
Israeli police protected the settlers, who stormed the compound in groups, the sources cited by Wafa said.
Al-Aqsa is the third-holiest site in Islam and the most-sacred Muslim place in Palestine.
Like other Muslim and Christian holy sites in East Jerusalem al-Quds it is often targeted by Jewish extremists.
Many radical Israelis seek to either split the Al-Aqsa compound in terms of time and space available between Jews and Muslims or replace the mosque with a Jewish temple.
Palestinians view occupied East Jerusalem al-Quds, which Israel illegally annexed in 1980 after capturing it in 1967, as the capital of their future independent state.
Almost the entire international community rejects Israel's annexation and sovereignty claims over Jerusalem al-Quds.
However, Israeli authorities and settlers have long sought to push Palestinians out of the city.
Source: newarab.com
