For the third time, the occupation allows settlers to storm Al-Aqsa and suppress worshipers

Hundreds of Jewish settlers stormed Al-Aqsa Mosque three times on Sunday, the first day of Eid al-Adha, under the protection of the Israeli occupation forces after noon prayers. Israeli police forces suppressed worshipers inside the mosque after Eid prayers, leaving dozens wounded.

According to the Israeli daily Maariv, the Israeli police allowed 1,729 Jews to storm Al-Aqsa Mosque on the first day of Eid, adding that the number of settlers who stormed the mosque today in the so-called anniversary of the destruction of the Temple increased by 17% compared to last year on the same occasion.

Firas al-Debs, public relations and information officer at the Islamic Waqf Department in Jerusalem, said that the settlers' incursions were protected by Israeli police forces in two phases after noon prayers.

Suppressing worshipers
The Israeli occupation forces had earlier suppressed the worshipers after the Eid prayers because of their protest against previous attempts to storm the settlers. The Israeli authorities allowed the settlers to storm Al-Aqsa after they were prevented twice in the morning.

The Anatolia news agency reported that the Israeli police officers stormed the Temple Mount and attacked the Jerusalemites inside it after the settlers were removed from the Temple Mount. As a result, the Israeli occupation forces injured 61 Palestinians and arrested five others.

The PRCS said 16 of the wounded had been taken to Jerusalem hospitals.

Palestinian figures
Al-Jazeera correspondent in Jerusalem said that the occupation forces attacked Palestinian figures after leaving most of the Al-Aqsa worshipers after the Eid prayers, including Chairman of the Awqaf Council Abdul Azim Salhab, Mufti General Mohammed Hussein and a member of the Executive Committee of the Palestine Liberation Organization Adnan Husseini.

The Palestinians performed the Eid al-Adha prayer in the mosque after the Islamic Waqf in Jerusalem delayed it by one hour, in anticipation of a decision by the Israeli police to allow settlers to storm the holy mosque.

Thousands of Palestinians flocked from the early hours to the courtyards of Al-Aqsa Mosque amid the intensive security deployment of the occupation forces in the vicinity of the mosque and at its gates.

Israeli groups and organizations have demanded Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, ministers in the Tel Aviv government and the police to allow Jews to storm al-Aqsa during Eid al-Adha, even if it is a Muslim holiday.

Condemn attacks
The Palestinian Presidency and the PLO condemned the settlers' incursions into the Al-Aqsa Mosque on the first day of Eid.The organization said in a statement that these repeated and systematic incursions "push the region and the world towards more violence, extremism and terrorism", adding that violations of the Temple Mount come in the context of propaganda for the Israeli elections scheduled for next month.

The head of the political bureau of the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) Ismail Haniyeh called for the need to withdraw recognition of the occupation, and stop all forms of normalization with him in light of the violations against the Al-Aqsa Mosque, said in a press statement that "Israeli violations against the Al-Aqsa Mosque in Eid al-Adha Rights and feelings of millions of Muslims around the world. "

The Jordanian Ministry of Foreign Affairs also condemned the Israeli violations against Al-Aqsa Mosque, whether on the worshipers or the administration of the Jerusalem Endowments.

"We Muslims have the power to end this tyranny only if we unite," Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said in response to Israeli attacks on Al-Aqsa.

Al-Aqsa is at the heart of the Arab-Israeli conflict.It is controlled by Israeli forces while the Islamic Waqf Department of Jordan administers the Temple Mount.The occupation seeks to change the status quo since 1967 by imposing a temporal and spatial division between Muslims and Jews.