Occupied Jerusalem

- On the second Friday of the month of Ramadan, about 30,000 worshipers flocked to the first two qiblahs to perform the dawn prayer, armed with love of Al-Aqsa and believing in the importance of seclusion in it and protecting it with their bare chests against the plans of the extremist Temple groups that announced their intention to offer the Easter sacrifice inside its courtyards this evening.

It was not long before the occupation forces stormed the Holy Mosque. Ofir Gendelman, the spokesman for the Israeli Prime Minister, claimed that what he described as Palestinian "thugs" threw stones and firecrackers without justification to inflame the situation in Al-Aqsa Mosque, noting that the police forces were forced to enter the compound. In order to disperse them and restore calm.

In this incursion, the blood of worshipers in the squares, the medical clinic, and inside the tribal prayer hall, due to the excessive use of gas and sound bombs and rubber-coated metal bullets, in addition to beating unarmed worshipers with batons and rifle butts, which led to the transfer of 152 casualties to Al-Makassed Hospital and the field hospital of the Palestinian Red Crescent Society.

The occupation forces stormed the courtyards of the #Al-Aqsa Mosque in large numbers and fired tear gas and sound bombs at the Almoravids pic.twitter.com/hexpnfMFvx

— Al Jazeera (@AJArabic) April 15, 2022

intrusion and sabotage

Al-Maqdisi Nasser Qas was present from the first moments of the storming of the Al-Aqsa Mosque clinic, and witnessed that the occupation forces deliberately injure the upper parts of the body and concentrated the injuries in the head area.

He told Al-Jazeera Net, "I witnessed most of the storming of Al-Aqsa Mosque, but today's storming is the most difficult, largest and most sabotaging the contents of the mosque... and the accurate description of what is happening is a complete violation of the first two Qiblas."

Qaws explained that he had to move from the clinic to the Qibli prayer hall after storming the clinic and breaking the door leading to Qibli, and there were the most painful scenes, as the worshipers were trapped and the occupation forces tried to inflict a large number of injuries in their ranks by throwing tear gas in this closed place. .

He continued, "Everyone was beaten with batons, the hands of the worshipers were tied behind, and they were forced to lie on their stomachs in a humiliating manner, then they were taken en masse towards the Mughrabi Gate, and from there to the interrogation centers. The number of these detainees is estimated at 150."

Documenting the destruction of the upper windows of the tribal prayer hall in Al-Aqsa Mosque by the occupation forces to facilitate targeting worshipers inside it this morning pic.twitter.com/AfA6RQxFTb

— Shehab News Agency (@ShehabAgency) April 15, 2022

Occupation message

For his part, the director of the blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque, Omar Al-Kiswani, confirmed that the storming of Al-Aqsa was in two phases: the first, after the dawn prayer, during which the squares were completely emptied of worshipers, and the second at eight thirty, during which the medical clinic and the tribal prayer hall were stormed.

Al-Kiswani - who was later trapped inside his office and prevented from leaving it - witnessed a number of injuries, including two serious injuries to two guards of the mosque in the head area, in addition to two injuries that were evacuated from the clinic in a serious condition as well.

Describing what is happening in the mosque’s courtyards since the morning, he stressed that “the occupation has completely taken control of the Al-Aqsa Mosque, and we do not know where things will go, because we are talking about the use of excessive force that resulted in serious injuries, and this reminds us of the storming of Ramadan last year, but today we are witnessing a fiercer intrusion.” A direct attack on ambulance crews and journalists."

Regarding the message that the occupation wanted to convey through this incursion, Al-Kiswani said that he wanted to say that he is the one who controls Al-Aqsa and imposes the equation he wants on him.

In return, the worshipers sent a message to the whole world that Al-Aqsa is their faith, and that they will not allow extremists to make sacrifices in its courtyards.

The occupation forces confronted the worshipers with force and excessive violence (Reuters)

As for the administrative director at Al-Makassed Hospital in Jerusalem, Suleiman Turkman, he explained to Al-Jazeera Net that most of the injuries that reached the hospital were concentrated in the head and chest, in addition to fractures in the hands and legs as a result of beatings with batons and rifle butts.

He said, "We admitted to the resuscitation department 8 seriously ill, and 14 others in moderate to serious condition, one of whom was admitted to the operating room after losing his eye with a direct injury, and we released 30 injured who were treated for broken hands and legs."

For his part, the former academic and media and public relations official at Al-Aqsa Mosque, Abdullah Maarouf, said that just seeing the readiness of the occupation forces to empty 30,000 worshipers who performed the dawn prayer at Al-Aqsa, is a clear indication that the occupation has a prior intention to empty Al-Aqsa of worshipers, and most likely to pass The issue of slaughtering sacrifices inside it, and here is the source of the seriousness of what happened today.

The preacher of Al-Aqsa Mosque of Al-Jazeera: The situation is very dangerous, and the authority and Arab countries must act and bear responsibility pic.twitter.com/iyiI6yJvoK

— Al Jazeera (@AJArabic) April 15, 2022

scary way

And the Palestinian academic added that storming the tribal prayer hall and pointing weapons in this frightening way at the worshipers prove that the occupation authorities are determined to implement the scheme of the extremist groups that already control the occupation police, to enable them to make sacrifices in Al-Aqsa starting from this evening.

Regarding what is required now, Maarouf stressed the need to stay inside Al-Aqsa and insist not to allow the occupation authorities to monopolize it, and to escalate the popular in the face of attempts to empty it and facilitate the process of slaughtering sacrifices and the incursions of extremists to it.

Among the first serious reactions to what happened in Al-Aqsa Mosque today, the former director of the Union of Temple Organizations, Yaakov Hayman, published on his Facebook page, a post that stated, “There are only two options on the Temple Mount: Either Islamic violence and Hamas on the Temple Mount, or the Passover sacrifice inside it, There is nothing in between, and we decide."

In turn, the occupation police announced that they had arrested 300 worshipers from Al-Aqsa Mosque at the end of their storming of it.