Al-Aqsa Mosque

Zionist regime’s Prime Minister Yair Lapid led a security meeting yesterday and agreed to allow settlers to raid Al-Aqsa Mosque during the Jewish holidays, Channel 13 reported.

The repeated Israeli attacks against Al-Quds and the Al-Aqsa Mosque, including the escalating Jewish settlers' break-ins into the holy site, require the support of Arab and Islamic countries, Sheikh Ekrima Sabri, the preacher of the Al-Aqsa Mosque has said.

Allowing Israeli settlers to continue their violations at the Al-Aqsa Mosque, the latest of which was when a number of Israeli settlers posed in immodest clothes in its courtyards desecrating the sanctity of the Muslim holy compound, is a dangerous escalation and heinous crime that defiles one of the Muslims' most sacred sites.

The Palestinian Authority’s foreign ministry has condemned Israeli settlers’ storming of al-Aqsa mosque through the Lions’ Gate, one of the gates leading to the al-Aqsa Mosque compound in the Old City of occupied East al-Quds.

Today marks the anniversary of the 1969 arson attack on Al-Aqsa Mosque by the Zionist criminal, Denis Michael Rohan, with apparent complicity by the Israeli occupation authorities.

August 21 marks the 53rd anniversary of a terrible attack against an Islamic holy site, when a Protestant extremist from Australia named Denis Michael Rohan set fire to the al-Aqsa Mosque in Al-Quds, destroying large parts of the site and irreplaceable artifacts.

Sheikh Ekrima Sabri, head of the Higher Islamic Council in Occupied Al-Quds, has warned that Al-Quds and the Aqsa Mosque are going through very critical and difficult times.

The Palestinian Legislative Council (PLC) warned that the continued Israeli crimes committed against the Al-Aqsa Mosque would lead to an “explosion”.

Dozens of Jewish settlers desecrated the Aqsa Mosque in Occupied Al-Quds on Wednesday morning and later in the afternoon.

Dozens of extremist settlers desecrated the Aqsa Mosque in Occupied Al-Quds under tight police protection on Monday morning and later in the afternoon.

The Hamas Movement warned of an Israeli plot that aims at demolishing part of the Al-Aqsa Mosque and changing its landmarks.

Dozens of extremist Jewish settlers desecrated the Aqsa Mosque in Occupied Al-Quds under tight police protection on Monday morning and later in the afternoon.

Tens of thousands of Muslim worshipers were able to perform the Eid al-Adha prayer at the Aqsa Mosque on Saturday morning despite Israeli movement and access restrictions.

The Islamic Waqf (Endowment) department, which is in charge of Al-Aqsa Mosque and Muslim holy places in Al-Quds, warned that any Israeli changes to the decades-old status quo at the walled compound of Al-Aqsa Mosque/Al-Haram Al-Sharif could ignite a religious war in the area.

The Palestinian Islamic Resistance Movement Hamas rejects the attempts by the Israeli occupation to register the ownership of Palestinian endowment land near the Old City of Al-Quds and the Al-Aqsa Mosque for Israeli settlers.

Hamas official called on the Arab and Muslim world to protect Al-Quds and the Al-Aqsa Mosque with every means possible.

Hundreds of Israeli settlers roamed the Al-Aqsa compound in separate groups on Sunday and Monday, as Israeli police arrested six Palestinians and tightened police control over the occupied city.

The director of the al-Aqsa Mosque compound says Israel’s unrelenting violations at the holy site will lead to what he has termed uncontrollable explosion.

Scores of Israeli settlers escorted by Israeli police broke into the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound in occupied Al-Quds and performed rituals across its courtyards, as Muslim worshipers were forced by police to stay inside the southern building inside the compound, according to witnesses.

Jordan’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates condemned the storming of al-Aqsa mosque in Al-Quds by Israeli extremists and a Knesset member, warning of escalation due to permitting an Israeli flag march in Al-Quds, according to Jordan’s Petra news agency.

The Palestinian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates has condemned Israeli settler’s latest raids on the al-Aqsa Mosque compound in the occupied Old City of al-Quds, saying the Tel Aviv regime is fanning the flames of religious tensions by allowing such incursions into the holy site.

A member of the Islamic-Christian Committee in Support of Al-Quds and its Sanctuaries has called for civil disobedience in occupied Al-Quds next Sunday to protect Al-Aqsa Mosque from the planned incursion by illegal Jewish settlers. Father Manuel Musallam made his call on Monday in a public statement.

Calls by the radical "temple mount" groups to storm the Al-Aqsa Mosque on Sunday, which marks the anniversary of Nakba, under the protection of the Israeli occupation authorities, are a grave escalation aimed at provoking the feelings of the Palestinian people and the Arab and Muslim world and at pushing for an open conflict that the Israeli occupation bears full responsibility for its repercussions.

Dozens of Jewish settlers escorted by police forces desecrated the Aqsa Mosque on Sunday morning, amid restrictions on the entry of Palestinian citizens, especially young men and women, to the Islamic holy site.