1,500 Israeli settlers stage police-enabled incursion into al-Aqsa Mosque compound as Palestinians face tight restrictions
The Israeli police have provided protection for around 1,500 illegal settlers staging an incursion into the al-Aqsa Mosque’s compound in the holy occupied city of al-Quds, while Palestinians face tight restrictions.
The settlers entered the compound in waves through the Mughrabi Gate on Sunday before Israeli officials shut the gate, the Palestinian Authority’s al-Quds Governorate said.
The settlers held rituals inside the compound as the Israeli forces were imposing strict restrictions around the mosque and elsewhere throughout al-Quds’ Old City.
The al-Quds Governorate said it had recorded about 40,661 settler incursions into al-Aqsa between January and the end of August.
Also on Sunday, the Palestinian resistance movement Hamas warned that escalating incursions by Israeli officials and settlers would not change the Islamic identity of occupied al-Quds and al-Aqsa Mosque.
The movement denounced Israeli authorities for tightening restrictions on al-Quds’ residents and holy sites, expanding “security measures,” and providing cover for settlers making their way into the compound.
Hamas specifically pointed to activity around Bab al-Qattanin and in the courtyards of al-Aqsa, noting how some of the incursions had occurred amid visits by Israeli far-right minister Itamar Ben-Gvir, Knesset member Amit Halevi, other Israeli officials, and extremist settlers.
The movement also warned against attempts to impose new facts on the ground at the holy site, including efforts to bring so-called “plant offerings” into the compound.
On the same day, the Arab League strongly condemned an ongoing Israeli escalation in the occupied West Bank, including East al-Quds, warning of a dangerous deterioration at al-Aqsa Mosque and elsewhere across the occupied territory.
The General Secretariat of the League of Arab States censured the intensification of Israeli military measures, closures, and restrictions on Palestinian movement, condemning attempts to alter the longstanding status quo at the holy site.
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