21 EXTREMIST SETTLERS STORM AL-AQSA

Photo: Al-Ray
Photo: Al-Ray

Al-Quds, 16 Shafar 1436/9 December 2014 (MINA)– As many as 21 extremist Israeli settlers   broke into al-Aqsa Mosque on Sunday morning from the Mughrabi Gate heavily guarded by the special Israeli occupation police.

The director of the Al-Aqsa Mosque, Sheikh Omar Kiswani  said to Alray that nearly 21 radical settlers stormed Al-Aqsa morning and toured inside its courtyards, Al-ray, Palestinian Media Agency quoted by Mi’raj Islamic News Agency (MINA) as reporting.

Sheikh Kiswani pointed out that some extremists tried to perform some Talmudic rituals but Al-Aqsa Mosque guards prevented them from performing any rituals or explanations in the courtyards.

He added that the Israeli police pushed extremist settlers out of the  courtyards of Al-Aqsa Mosque and arrested them for not complying with the terms of the intrusion.

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Witnesses said that one of the settlers was tearing his clothes in front of the Dome of the Rock while he was doing Talmudic rituals held by Jewish settlers, and tried to escape from police after tearing his clothes in front of the mosque, but the police stopped him. (T/P010/R03)

Mi’raj Islamic News Agency (MINA)