The most prominent Israeli attacks on Al-Aqsa in half a century

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On August 21, 1969, an Australian extremist, Michael Dennis Rohan, set fire to the tribal chapel of the Al-Aqsa Mosque, set fire to the eastern wing of the chapel on the south side of the mosque, and devoured the entire contents of the wing, including the historic Saladin pulpit. Archaeological Chapel.

Tuesday marked the 49th anniversary of the burning of the mosque, but it was not the only attack. It was the first of the attacks at the beginning of the Israeli occupation of the city of Jerusalem in 1967, and continues to escalate in quantity and quality to this day.

Following are the main violations recorded against Al-Aqsa Mosque since 1967:

June 7 , 1967 : General Mordechai Gore and his soldiers enter the Al-Aqsa Mosque on the third day of the 1967 war, raising the Israeli flag on the Dome of the Rock, burning the Koran, preventing worshipers from praying there, and confiscating the keys to its doors.

June 15 , 1967 : The Chief Rabbi of the Israeli army, Shlomo Gorn, and fifty of his followers, hold a religious prayer in the courtyard of the mosque.

August 21 , 1969: Al-Aqsa Mosque is burned and an Australian tourist is arrested for his background.

January 28, 1976: The Israeli Central Court determines that Jews have the right to pray inside al-Aqsa.

August 28 , 1981: A tunnel under the Temple Mount begins at the Western Wall.

April 11, 1982: A soldier named Harry Goldman opens fire indiscriminately inside al-Aqsa, killing two Palestinians and injuring more than 60 others.

July 25, 1982: Joel Lerner, a Kach activist, is arrested after planning to blow up the Rock Mosque.

January 26 , 1984 : Two Jews enter al-Aqsa with large quantities of explosives and grenades to blow up the Dome of the Rock.

March 11, 1997 : The Attorney General of the Israeli government allows Jews to pray in Al-Aqsa after coordination with the police.

31 August 1997 : Israeli plans to demolish the Umayyad palaces adjacent to the Al-Aqsa Mosque and the expansion of the Western Wall.

September 28 , 2000 : Ariel Sharon breaks into the yard of the Al-Aqsa Mosque.

September 29 , 2000 : The Israeli occupation forces commit a new massacre against worshipers in Al-Aqsa Mosque, resulting in dozens of martyrs and wounded.

September 9 , 2004: Menachem Froman, a rabbi of the Tekoa settlement, holds a wedding for his son inside al-Aqsa.

April 4, 2005: Israeli police publish details of a plan that includes the installation of motion sensors and cameras around Al-Aqsa.

February 8 , 2006: The Ministry of Education of the Occupation and the Jewish Agency distribute thousands of copies of maps of the Old City of Jerusalem, in which a picture of the alleged Temple Mount is placed in the place of the Dome of the Rock.

May 25 , 2010: For the first time, a Haredi rabbi allowed a full Jewish ritual to worship and prostrate fully toward the Dome of the Rock during the day.

December 20 , 2010: A settler who tried to storm al-Aqsa was arrested with explosives to be placed in the tribal chapel.

October 27 , 2014: The Knesset debates a proposal to withdraw Jordanian sovereignty over Al-Aqsa.

January 18, 2015: The Islamic Waqf Department confirmed two new attempts to fire settlers from a small, remotely piloted aircraft towards the Al-Aqsa Mosque were thwarted.

February 11, 2015: Jerusalem Municipality staff set up a sign near the Al-Aqsa Mosque bearing the name "Temple Mount" with reference to Al-Aqsa Mosque in Arabic, Hebrew and English.

23 July 2015: Israeli police prevent children from entering the summer camps of Al-Aqsa Mosque.

September 1, 2015: IOF prevent schoolchildren from entering their schools inside Al-Aqsa Mosque.

September 9, 2015: The Minister of the Occupation Army declares that the Almoravids and Marabouts in the Al-Aqsa Mosque are illegal and prohibited groups.

September 14, 2015: A reinforced force of Israeli soldiers and police stormed Al-Aqsa Mosque, broke the locks of the tribal chapel, and threw dozens of gas bombs and rubber-coated metal bullets at the worshipers, with the aim of removing them from the mosque, arresting them and unloading Al-Aqsa worshipers in favor of new settler incursions.

December 16, 2015: The Israeli police stopped the work of the staff of the Reconstruction and Maintenance Committee in Al-Aqsa Mosque.

April 13, 2016: Israeli newspaper Yedioth Ahronoth unveils ultra-Orthodox settlers holding their marriage ceremony inside the Al-Aqsa Mosque.

May 12, 2016: Israeli occupation forces prevent a foot march coming from Haifa with the slogan "Spread peace among you" from reaching its final stop inside Al-Aqsa Mosque, after the participants traveled 187 kilometers within six days.

June 21, 2016: Uncovered excavations carried out by the Israeli occupation authorities around and below Al-Aqsa Mosque.

August 16, 2016: Israel's Channel 2 unveiled in a television report a three-year plan by Israeli organizations and associations to demolish the Al-Aqsa Mosque and build an "alleged temple" on its ruins.

November 23, 2016: Israeli Police Minister Gilad Ardan asserted that his forces will soon allow Knesset members and ministers to storm the Al-Aqsa Mosque, following a halt to several months of incursions into the Al-Mubarak Mosque by order of Netanyahu and the recommendations of the security and intelligence services.

March 1, 2017: Arab League condemns Israeli Magistrate's Court's decision to consider Jerusalem and Al-Aqsa Mosque a holy place for Jews.

May 2, 2017: Two Israeli soldiers storm the Al-Aqsa Mosque and pay a military salute in front of the Dome of the Rock.

June 29, 2017: Israeli police close Al-Aqsa Mosque in front of worshipers during large-scale incursions by dozens of settlers, including Yorem Levy, the head of the Israeli police in Jerusalem.

July 2, 2017: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu decides to allow the resumption of the storming of Al-Aqsa Mosque by ministers and members of parliament after a year and a half ban.

July 14, 2017: Israeli police announce the prohibition of Friday prayers at Al-Aqsa Mosque, and closes it completely after a shooting attack in which three youths were killed and two Israeli policemen were killed.

July 15, 2017: Occupation authorities decide to set up electronic gates at the gates of Al-Aqsa Mosque, and Jerusalemites, led by religious authorities, declare a sit-in in front of the doors until they are removed.

July 27, 2017: worshipers enter Al-Aqsa Mosque after the removal of cameras and electronic gates, and the occupation forces track their entry by throwing a barrage of sound and gas bombs and rubber bullets, and injuring dozens in bloody confrontations.

August 22, 2017: Israeli forces prevented the entry of books to schools located inside the Al-Aqsa Mosque.

November 26, 2017: The Jerusalem Awqaf, Islamic Affairs and Holy Places Department issued a report confirming the occupation's execution of acts of vandalism and sabotage in Al-Aqsa Mosque during its closure from (14 to 27/7/2017).

December 3, 2017: A group of settlers stepped into the courtyard of the Dome of the Rock at the Al-Aqsa Mosque, wandering the area in an unprecedented step.

December 10, 2017: Crews of the so-called Israeli Antiquities and Nature Authority stormed with a military force the Bab al-Rahma cemetery adjacent to the Al-Aqsa Mosque, and began to cut trees and tamper with graves.

December 19, 2017: The Israeli authorities opened a new synagogue in the tunnels of the Western Wall under Al-Aqsa Mosque.

January 16, 2018: Occupation authorities prevent staff of the Islamic Waqf Construction Committee from conducting restoration and maintenance throughout the Al-Aqsa Mosque.

January 21, 2018: Settlers perform public Talmudic prayers and rituals near Bab al-Rahma in al-Aqsa Mosque, under heavy guard from the accompanying occupation forces.

May 1, 2018: Israeli occupation forces continue to violate the sanctity of the Bab al-Rahma cemetery adjacent to the wall of the Al-Aqsa Mosque in preparation for the construction of a Judaic garden.

May 9, 2018: Israeli police allow Jewish girls to break into the mosque in a dress that is worn on the wedding day.

May 22, 2018: US Ambassador to Israel David Friedman receives from a radical association a picture of Jerusalem showing the alleged structure of the Al-Aqsa Mosque.

June 18, 2018: Israeli police set up a military observation post on the roof of the Bab al-Rahma hall inside the Al-Aqsa Mosque.

July 27, 2018: On the first anniversary of the victory of worshipers with the gift of electronic gates, the Israeli occupation forces stormed Al-Aqsa and fired sound and gas bombs towards the worshipers, and a state of tension prevails for the mosque and its surroundings for hours.

December 10, 2018: A group of settlers stormed the Bab al-Rahma Islamic cemetery adjacent to the Al-Aqsa mosque wall from the east, and its Talmudic prayers and rituals led to the closed Bab al-Rahma.

January 14, 2019: Elements of special units of the Israeli police besieged a number of guards inside the Dome of the Rock in Al-Aqsa Mosque, after the mosque guards prevented a policeman from storming the mosque wearing the Talmudic Hat `` Kiba '', and clashes took place in the Dome of the Rock leading to the withdrawal of troops. Occupation in the evening of the mosque.

February 17, 2019: The Israeli police stormed the Bab al-Rahma area and put new locks stealthily on the door to prevent the waqf from opening or using it, after the Awqaf Council held a meeting in the closed building since 2003 by an occupation decision.

February 19, 2019: The Israeli occupation forces turned Bab al-Rahma area in Al-Aqsa Mosque into a military barracks and started to remove the iron chains, locks and the external iron gate of Bab al-Rahma. .

Feb. 22, 2019: Worshipers manage to reopen the Bab al-Rahma mosque, which has been closed since 2003, and is rallying thousands in the eastern region after intense calls to make the Al-Aqsa Mosque travel.

March 3, 2019: Israeli police resume a policy of arresting guards who open the door of the Bab al-Rahma prayer hall each morning, and then arrest every Jerusalemite who opens the prayer door in the morning.

March 10, 2019: The Union of Temple Organizations renews its calls for widespread participation in the storming of the Al-Aqsa Mosque, to extend Israeli control over the place and turn the Bab al-Rahma chapel into a synagogue called the Bab al-Rahma Synagogue.

June 2, 2019: Around 1,200 settlers stormed Al-Aqsa Mosque in flagrant violation of the sanctity of the mosque during the last ten days of the month of Ramadan, and violent confrontations took place during which protesters confronted the occupation forces and settlers who responded to the calls of the organizations of the Temple to storm Al-Aqsa to celebrate the so-called "unification of Jerusalem."

August 15, 2019: Israeli police close the doors of Al-Aqsa Mosque for hours in the face of worshipers, after shooting at two boys who stabbed a policeman as they left the door of the chain, one of the doors of the Al-Aqsa Mosque.The two children were later martyred.