Israeli Settlers Desecrate Al-Aqsa Mosque during Incursion

Rasa - Large groups of Israeli settlers, escorted by the army forces, stormed and desecrated al-Aqsa Mosque via the Maghareba Gate in the occupied Eastern Jerusalem.

News ID: 430739

Date: 03 July 2017 - 23:21

RNA - Before the sacrilegious incursion on Sunday, Israeli regime forces unlocked the Maghareba Gate and cordoned off the plazas of al-Aqsa Mosque, Al Waght reported.

At the same time, dozens of Muslim men and women from occupied parts of Jerusalem have been prevented by the Israeli forces from praying at the site.

Palestinian Islamic institutions have warned of Israeli plots against al-Aqsa Mosque amid intensification of settlers' desecration of the holy Islamic site.

Over the past decades, Israel has tried to change the demographic makeup of al-Quds by constructing illegal settlements, destroying historical sites and expelling the local Palestinian population.

Palestinians have declared Jerusalem as the capital of a future Palestinian independent state, and that its heritage should remain intact.

The al-Aqsa mosque, which lies in the Israeli-occupied Old City of al-Quds, is a flashpoint and is Islam’s third-holiest site after Mecca and Medina.

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