JERUSALEM: Dozens of fanatic Israeli colonists Monday morning broke into the compounds of al-Aqsa Mosque under heavy protection from the Israeli police.
The extremist colonists, divded into groups, raided the holy Islamic Mosque from al-Maghariba gate and took provocative tours in its compounds.
It added that the colonists performed Talmudic rituals in the eastern part of the Mosque.
This comes at a time as Israeli forces intensify measures against Palestinians coming from Jerusalem to enter the Mosque, inspecting their IDs and briefly detaining them.
Yesterday, Israeli occupation forces installed a watchtower and placed surveillance cameras on it, on the western wall of Al-Aqsa Mosque.
Eyewitnesses told WAFA that the occupation forces placed 3 cement cubes on the western wall of the mosque and installed watchtowers above it.
Source: Palestine News and Information Agency – WAFA