Hundreds of Israeli settlers, celebrating the Jewish vacation of Sukkot, pressured Monday their means into the flashpoint Al-Aqsa Mosque complicated in occupied East Jerusalem, for the second day in a row.
Sukkot is a weeklong vacation, which began Sept. 29 and can proceed till Oct. 6, ending a season of Jewish holidays that began by observing the Rosh Hashanah (New Year) vacation on Sept.15.
In a press release, an official with the Jordan-run Islamic Waqf Department mentioned a whole bunch of Israeli settlers guarded by the Israeli police pressured their means into the complicated by way of the Al-Mughrabi Gate.
The settlers made excursions of the mosque’s courtyards and tried to carry out “Talmudic rituals,” the official instructed Anadolu Agency requesting anonymity as a result of they weren’t licensed to talk to the media.
Earlier Sunday, the Islamic Waqf Department mentioned that just about 860 settlers stormed the Al-Aqsa Mosque.
Israeli police started permitting the settler incursions into the Al-Aqsa Mosque complicated in 2003, regardless of repeated condemnations from Palestinians.
Al-Aqsa Mosque is the world’s third-holiest website for Muslims. Jews name the world the “Temple Mount,” claiming it was the positioning of two Jewish temples in historical occasions.
Israel occupied East Jerusalem, the place Al-Aqsa is situated, through the 1967 Arab-Israeli War. It annexed the whole metropolis in 1980, a transfer by no means acknowledged by the worldwide group.
Source: www.dailysabah.com