On Wednesday morning, 70 settlers stormed the courtyards of the Blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem, under heavy protection from the Israeli occupation police.

The Islamic Endowments Department in Jerusalem said that 60 settlers and 10 occupation intelligence personnel stormed Al-Aqsa in successive groups during the morning, and performed Talmudic rituals.

The raids take place through the Mughrabi Gate in the western wall of the mosque, and are carried out under heavy guard by the Israeli police.

Jerusalemites constantly call for a large crowd and rally in Jerusalem, and in Al-Aqsa Mosque in particular. To thwart all the occupation’s plans and repel settlers’ incursions, in light of calls from parties in the new occupation government to change the status quo in the mosque.

Al-Aqsa Mosque is subjected to daily raids, in two periods (morning and evening), except for Friday and Saturday, in an attempt to impose a temporal and spatial division in the mosque.