JERUSALEM: In a late-night assault today, Israeli occupation forces stormed into the Al-Qibli Mosque within the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound in occupied Jerusalem, assaulting worshippers and forcibly evacuating them.
Local sources reported that the Israeli police breached the sanctuary of the mosque, attacked the worshippers, and forcefully evicted them, preventing them from continuing their prayers until morning.
Simultaneously, Israeli police deployed extensively throughout the courtyards of the mosque, in an attempt to establish a new reality characterized by the constant presence of the Israeli occupation forces within the mosque’s premises.
Meantime, on the eve of the first Friday of the holy month of Ramadan, the occupation forces deployed heavily across the Old City of Jerusalem and erected metal barriers at the gates of the Al-Aqsa Mosque, specifically at the King Faisal, Al-Ghawanmeh, and Al-Hadid gates.
The occupation forces further intensified their presence in the city’s neighborhoods. They also ti
ghtened their measures at the military checkpoints surrounding the city, in anticipation of the influx of a large number of worshippers from the occupied West Bank on the first Friday of Ramadan.
Source: Palestine News and Information Agency – WAFA