FALCON POWERS – The blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque witnessed today, Tuesday, a wide desecration and serious violations during the incursions of settlers to commemorate the anniversary of the so-called “Temple Destruction”, which is considered the most important day for “renewing the covenant to build the alleged Temple and demolish the Dome of the Rock”.
The most prominent event was not the number of intruders, which exceeded previous years and reached 2,250 extremists during the morning incursions, but rather the fact that the “Minister of National Security” Itamar Ben-Gvir and the Minister of the Negev and Galilee, Yitzhak Wasserlauf, led the incursions and participated in prayers inside Al-Aqsa, as well as chanting “the people of Israel live” and collective prayers and prostration “epic prostration” in several locations in Al-Aqsa, in addition to raising the Israeli flags and chanting the “Israeli national anthem”.
Since the dawn hours, the occupation authorities have prevented worshippers from entering the Al-Aqsa Mosque, and this continues until now – as there is a period of incursions after the noon prayer. Dozens of worshippers told the Maan Agency that they were prevented from entering Al-Aqsa, and the officers asked them to return after 3:00 pm to enter it. Among those prevented from entering were the elderly over 80 years old and women of various ages.
Inside Al-Aqsa, the large and successive groups of settlers broke into it through the Mughrabi Gate – which the occupation authorities have controlled the keys to since the occupation of Jerusalem – and a small number of worshippers, mostly the elderly, were inside Al-Aqsa. The forces tried to determine their sitting locations in the courtyards so that they were not in the path of the settlers, which starts from the Mughrabi Gate and its courtyard, then the courtyard of the southern mosque, moving to the eastern region of Al-Aqsa, “where public collective prayers are held on the pretext that it is the main entrance to the alleged Temple”, then moving to walk along the northern wall of Al-Aqsa, then turning south towards the Bab al-Qattanin and the Chain – and those who leave Al-Aqsa – look at the Dome and usually hold public and collective prayers in the place.
