A group of settlers stormed the courtyards of the blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque shortly before, under the protection of the occupation forces. The Israeli army announced the arrest of 13 "wanted" people throughout the West Bank last night.
Palestinian press sources said that about 170 settlers stormed Al-Aqsa Mosque today, Monday, including Rabbi Yehuda Glick.
Hundreds of settlers stormed the courtyards of Al-Aqsa Mosque yesterday morning, on the 55th anniversary of the setback in 1967, during which Israel occupied East Jerusalem and the West Bank.
Among them, Rabbi Yehuda Glick, settlers have continued to storm Al-Aqsa Mosque since the morning hours pic.twitter.com/dQ1khcTKvQ
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The Palestinian resistance factions confirmed that they would not allow the Judaization of Jerusalem or the continuation of aggression against it.
It considered normalization a treacherous stab at the sacrifices of the Palestinian people.
As for the Palestinian Foreign Ministry, it held the government of (Israeli Prime Minister) Naftali Bennett directly responsible for these repeated incursions, warning at the same time of "ethnic cleansing" carried out by the "militias" of settlers in the West Bank.
In turn, the head of the political bureau of Hamas, Ismail Haniyeh, called for concerted efforts to protect Al-Aqsa Mosque and preserve its Islam.
Haniyeh, during his visit to the headquarters of the General Union of Muslim Scholars in Istanbul, praised the scholars' historical stances in adhering to the nation's constants and protecting its rights, stressing the importance of unifying the nation's efforts and working to devote the Palestinian cause and restore consideration for it.
The occupation forces arrested the leader of the Islamic movement inside the Green Line - the southern part, Sheikh Muhammad Salama Hassan, his wife and son, near Bab Hatta, one of the gates of the blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque in occupied Jerusalem.
Video clips showed the occupation forces violently assaulting Sheikh Salama, head of the Islamic Movement’s Ifta and Research House, and his wife and son, before arresting them and taking them to a detention center in the Holy City.