OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (Palestine Foundation Information Center), The Israeli occupation police have continued to close the Aqsa Mosque for the 38th consecutive day, preventing Muslim worshipers from entering it, amid strict security measures in the Old City of Jerusalem and at the entrances of the Islamic holy site.
The closure of the Aqsa Mosque persists amid a heavy deployment of Israeli forces and military checkpoints throughout the Old City, which remains accessible only to Palestinian residents of its neighborhoods.
Muslim worshipers are still forced to perform their prayers in the Old City’s streets, amid economic paralysis and disruption of daily life and education.
Meanwhile, social media activists have urged the Palestinian masses, the Arab and Muslim nations, and the world’s free people to stage and participate in daily protests against the ongoing closure of the Aqsa Mosque.
The International Union of Muslim Scholars also called for broad participation in a major global online demonstration under the slogan “Al-Aqsa is crying out for help.”
A preparatory conference for this demonstration started yesterday in Istanbul via the Zoom platform, with the participation of a select group of senior Muslim scholars, thinkers, and experts from different countries.
In a related context, the Jerusalem Governorate said that this year’s Jewish Passover witnessed seven attempts by extremist settlers to bring animal sacrifices into the Aqsa Mosque.
The Governorate added in a brief statement on Sunday evening that settlers succeeded in only two attempts to bring animal sacrifices into the Old City of Jerusalem.
The Governorate warned that such settler practices aim to impose new religious rituals during the Jewish Passover amid the ongoing Israeli closure of the Aqsa Mosque.
