Religious and political extremist groups stormed al-Aqsa Mosque and carried out tours and prayers throughout the mosque, especially in the eastern area adjacent to Bab al-Rahma, in light of the massive deployment of heavily armed police and special forces.
The director of the Holy Al-Aqsa Mosque, Sheikh Omar al-Kaswani, said: "The number of intruders today in the morning period: 1,050 tourists and 34 extremist Jews. They gathered at the Door of the Moroccans before entering and then divided into three groups, each accompanied by a number of police officers, and another group watched along the course of the incursions by a group of special forces.
The second incursion after noon prayers was the number of 1,230 tourists and extremist Jews, 12 of whom were students of Biblical institutes and activists from settlement associations in the Old City, he said.
A human rights report by the Wadi Helweh Information Center confirmed that the Israeli occupation forces arrested 162 Palestinians in the occupied city of Jerusalem in August and issued 21 deportations from the Holy Mosque. The center explained in a report published yesterday that the past month witnessed a dangerous precedent in the Al-Aqsa Mosque, by storming by the occupying forces and its settlers on the first day of Eid al-Adha, and the martyrdom of a child on its doorsteps.
He noted that 14-year-old Naseem Mu´ta´i Abu Rumi and Mohammed Khader al-Sheikh, 16, from Abu Dis, were killed after being shot at the door of al-Sa´ia, one of al-Aqsa´s doors, after they stabbed a policeofficer stationed on the outside.
He pointed out that the occupation authorities continue to detain the bodies of four Holy martyrs: Misbah Abu Sobeih since October 2016, Fadi al-Kabar since January 2017, the martyr of the captive movement Aziz Aweysat since May 2018, and the martyr child Abu Rumi.
According to the report, the occupation authorities turned the courtyards of the Al-Aqsa Mosque into a battlefield on the first day of Eid al-Adha (on 11 August 2019), after thousands of worshippers were attacked with sound bombs, rubber bullets, beatings and beatings in the courtyards of the mosque, to secure the settlers´ incursions in memory of the so-called "ruin" The temple.´
He explained that 1,329 settlers stormed al-Aqsa on the first day of Eid, in addition to the attack by the occupying forces and senior officers and officials of the occupation police on the worshippers stationed at The Gate of the Moroccans "after the end of the prayer and sermon of Eid al-Adha", and the execution of arrests from al-Aqsa squares. The al-Aqsa Mosque last month has reached 3,576 Jewish settlers and students, and last month saw the storming of the Bab al-Rahma chapel, the removal of wooden partitions that separate women from men, the shoe closet, and the confiscation of an "electronic clock" for prayer times.
According to the information center, the occupation authorities issued 21 deportation suppuns for young men, boys and females, and a decision to remove them from The Old City of Jerusalem, including the deputy director general of the Jerusalem Endowments, Sheikh Najah Bekirat.
The center monitored 162 arrests in Jerusalem, including "a child under the age of 12, 33 minors, and 6 females" who were concentrated in the town of Issawiya, and affected 87 Jerusalemites.
In August, the occupation authorities stepped up the targeting of activities in Jerusalem, and the Minister of Internal Security of the occupation government, Gilad Erdan, issued decrees banning six events in the city.
According to the information center report, during the past month, israeli bulldozers demolished eight installations in the city, two of which were self-demolished by the owners by the decision of the occupation municipality.
For his part, Dr. Jamal Amr, professor of architecture specialized in the history of Jerusalem and a lecturer at Birzeit University, warned: "The danger of excavations carried out by the municipality of occupation in Jerusalem, especially in the Umayyad palaces south of the wall of the Al-Aqsa Mosque and those initiated in Bab al-Amud, north of the Holy City.
Amr explained during a tour organized yesterday in the Old City that the Umayyad palaces are adjacent to the far south and an extension of Silwan, and the occupation seeks to seize it in preparation for the control of the Al-Aqsa Mosque and surround it, where the occupation destroyed the neighborhood of The Moroccans adjacent to the Umayyad palaces, and the neighborhood was established, and the neighborhood was established The Jew is to save the neighborhood of honor and the neighborhood of Bab al-Mughra."
He continued: "In recent years, the occupation authorities allowed Jewish rabbis to storm the Al-Aqsa Mosque, and made changes in the features of the palaces through excavations of about 56."
Amr explained: "The occupation municipal crews removed the trees in the vicinity of Bab al-Amud area on the pretext that they hinder the work of security surveillance cameras, and the place is being exploited to create a new Judaization garden, during which they appeared archaeological remains, they started digging work in the area, dating back to the Islamic period, and it is likely that The aim of what is happening in bab al-Amud is not to erect an archaeological excavation, but to change the existing reality, to penetrate the area and to impose control over both sides of the main door used by the residents of the Old City and the pioneers of the Holy Al-Aqsa Mosque."
46 settlers storm al-Aqsa... The occupation arrested 162 Jerusalemites during august
