OCCUPIED JERUSALEM (Palestine Foundation Information Center) Dozens of extremist Jewish settlers escorted by police officers desecrated the Aqsa Mosque’s courtyards on Tuesday morning to mark what they call the Passover festival, amid tight restrictions on the entry of Muslim worshipers to the holy site.
Local sources reported seeing dozens of settlers, including rabbis, touring the Mosque’s courtyards and performing Jewish prayers while wearing religious attire.
For their part, Islamic Awqaf guards at the Aqsa Mosque said that over 200 settlers led by former Knesset member Yehuda Glick and rabbis entered the Mosque in different groups through the Maghariba Gate.
Meanwhile, Sheikh Mohamed Hussein, Grand Mufti of Palestine and preacher of the Aqsa Mosque, strongly denounced the Israeli occupation police for allowing settlers to defile the Mosque and perform prayers in its courtyards to mark the Passover festival.
Sheikh Hussein condemned such settler violations at the Islamic holy site as “aggression against the Muslim nation’s exclusive right to the Aqsa Mosque,” which he described as “part of the Muslim faith.”
