Condemnations for storming Al-Aqsa, injuries and closures in the West Bank

The Palestinian Authority and Hamas condemned the storming of Al-Aqsa Mosque by settlers and warned of the temporal and spatial division of the Mosque, while the occupation closed the Ibrahimi Mosque in the city of Hebron to allow settlers to enter it and perform their rituals, and the occupation closed a number of Palestinian villages and cities and confrontations took place between them and the Palestinians that led to a number of injuries and arrests.

The Palestinian Foreign Ministry condemned the targeting of Al-Aqsa Mosque and the increase in the number of Jews participating in the raids, and said that attempts to impose new facts on it would introduce decisive changes to its historical, political and legal reality by dividing it spatially.

She pointed out that the gradual and creeping annexation of the West Bank is an Israeli war on peace and its references and supporters.

The Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) also condemned the occupation attacks on the marabouts and marabouts at the gates of Al-Aqsa Mosque, and called on the Palestinian people to confront and resist to respond to the crimes of the occupation.

The Islamic Waqf Department in occupied Jerusalem reported that 1035,<> settlers and Jewish extremists stormed Al-Aqsa Mosque since this morning under the protection of the Israeli police.

Al Jazeera correspondent also reported that hundreds of settlers and Jewish extremists performed Talmudic prayers at Bab al-Silsila, one of the gates of Al-Aqsa Mosque, noting that the occupation police assaulted those stationed in the Bab al-Silsila area, one of the gates of Al-Aqsa Mosque, and arrested a number of them.

These raids come on the third day of the so-called "Jewish Sukkot" holiday, amid tight security guard from the occupation forces, as large Israeli police forces deployed in the courtyards of Al-Aqsa Mosque, and imposed restrictions on the entry of Palestinian worshipers.

The "Feast of the Throne" (the last of the three Jewish holidays, Passover, Weeks, and the Throne) began on September 29 and will continue until October 6 and is associated with the anniversary of the Jews' loss in the Sinai desert and their living under umbrellas and tents.

The Palestinian news and information agency Wafa quoted eyewitnesses as saying that "dozens of settlers stormed the courtyards of Al-Aqsa in successive groups from the side of the Mughrabi Gate and performed Talmudic rituals in its courtyards.

For its part, the Jordanian Foreign Ministry condemned the ongoing violations of extremists in Al-Aqsa and the restrictions imposed on Palestinians in the Old City, and stressed that Israel does not have sovereignty over occupied East Jerusalem and cannot impose restrictions on entry to Al-Aqsa.

In a related context, the Wadi Hilweh Information Center said that the Israeli occupation authorities issued 58 deportation orders from the blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque and the Old City of Jerusalem last September.

Jewish Museum

In the context of the attack on the Temple Mount, the occupation authorities opened a Judaization museum under the Umayyad palaces, dozens of meters from the blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque.

According to the Palestinian news agency Wafa, the museum is an old building seized by the occupation, at the wall of the Old City of Jerusalem.

Fakhri Abu Diab, a specialist in Jerusalem affairs, said that what the occupation opened was a building from the Mamluk period that the occupation restored, and the building includes a basement that has been restored and turned into a museum that includes "fabricated biblical narratives," and "collectibles that were stolen during excavations in Jerusalem were placed and falsified, claiming that they belonged to the Jews."

Tomb of the Patriarchs

The occupation authorities also closed the Ibrahimi Mosque in the center of Hebron, in the southern occupied West Bank, to Muslim worshipers on the occasion of the Jewish "Throne Day", and opened it to settlers.

The director of the Ibrahimi Mosque, Ghassan al-Rajabi, said that the occupation closed the Ibrahimi Mosque today and tomorrow because of the Throne Day.

According to al-Rajabi, the closure of the compound to Muslims "opens all its sections to settlers, and noisy parties and Talmudic prayers are held."

It is noteworthy that the occupation closes the Ibrahimi Mosque for 10 days each year (during different holidays) to Muslims and opens it to settlers as part of its continued division temporally and spatially.

Any Palestinian presence is prohibited, whether to pray or raise the call to prayer, and this is accompanied by extensive military and security measures in its vicinity.

The Cave of the Patriarchs is located in the Old City of Hebron, and there are about 400 settlers guarded by about 1500,<> occupation soldiers.

Since 1994, Israel has divided the mosque into 63 percent for Jews and 37 percent for Muslims, following a massacre by an extremist settler that killed 29 worshippers.

The occupation tightens the closure of Palestinian areas and restricts the movement of citizens (Reuters)

Injuries, Arrests and Closures

Meanwhile, the Palestinian Red Crescent announced that 3 Palestinians were injured by rubber bullets, including a child who was wounded in the head, during clashes with the Israeli occupation forces in Al-Shuhada Street in the center of Hebron.

The occupying forces also arrested 16 Palestinians from different parts of the occupied West Bank last night and today, concentrated in the cities of Jerusalem, Nablus, Jenin and Ramallah.

The Prisoners' Club said that the occupation will try the detainees on charges of resisting the occupation. The Prisoners' Club confirmed that arrests among Palestinians have reached more than five thousand cases since the beginning of this year.

These developments coincided with the closure of a number of towns and sites in the occupied West Bank by the Israeli occupation forces to provide protection for settlers celebrating Throne Day.

During the Jewish holidays, the occupation army imposes a complete closure on the West Bank and the Gaza Strip.

In Hebron, the occupation army closed the Old City of Hebron, and large forces of the occupation stormed the center of Hebron, closed shops and imposed a ban on movement, to secure the entry of hundreds of settlers to an archaeological area and perform religious rituals there.

Settlers break into an ancient tomb on their religious occasions and claim that it is hundreds of years old and contains the mausoleum of a Jewish cleric named Otnael Ben Qanez.

The Israeli occupation army also closed the vicinity of Nablus, closed the archaeological area of the town of Sebastia to Palestinians and opened it to settlers, and opened the Mount Ebal area to settlers, according to local sources.

The closures impeded access for students and teachers to 27 schools south of Hebron.