Today, Sunday, the occupation authorities imposed a siege on the blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque and turned its surroundings into a military barracks, to secure settlers’ celebrations and incursions into Al-Aqsa on the “Hebrew New Year.”
423 extremists carried out their raids on Al-Aqsa, during the morning and afternoon raids, through the Mughrabi Gate, the keys of which have been controlled by the occupation authorities since the occupation of the city of Jerusalem in 1967 - as the Islamic Endowments Department explained.
One of the settlers blew a trumpet in its courtyards “announcing the start of the Hebrew year from inside Al-Aqsa,” while dozens of them performed their prayers during the storming of Al-Aqsa publicly and collectively. The settlers deliberately stormed Al-Aqsa while wearing “the uniform of temple priests/clothes of repentance” to lead the Jewish prayers inside Al-Aqsa.
The occupation authorities prevented Muslims under the age of 50 from entering Al-Aqsa Mosque, and “young men and women” performed the noon prayer at the thresholds of Al-Aqsa after they were prevented from entering.
Meanwhile, Bab al-Silsilah Road - one of the roads leading to the Blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque - turned into an arena of confrontation, between the Almoravids who were deported from the mosque and the settlers who stormed it and Al-Buraq Square, and between the occupation forces protecting the settlers.
Young men and women, young and old, have been stationed since the early hours of the morning at the point closest to Al-Aqsa. Some of them are prevented from entering “by decisions from intelligence and occupation officers,” and others are prevented “as part of a policy followed during the Jewish holidays” of preventing Muslims from entering Al-Aqsa during the period of raids. Within the “temporal division of the mosque” plan.
Those stationed at Bab al-Silsilah were subjected to persecution, beatings, and arrest, in an attempt to remove them from the vicinity of the place and dissuade them from being present and remaining there. Through this road, the settlers complete their storming of Al-Aqsa and emerge, forming dance and singing circles. Likewise, from it, the settlers head to Buraq Square to perform prayers.
Murabitun emphasize their stability
Hajj Abu Bakr Al-Shami was injured in his head after one of the officers forcefully pushed him to the ground and said: “For the sake of God and Al-Aqsa, blood is flowing. We, the owners of the house, are prevented from entering and praying in Al-Aqsa, but the settler was allowed to do so. I am steadfast and stationed in Al-Aqsa and at its gates.” "I will not give up my mosque."
Sixty-year-old station station Aida Al-Sidawi. Dozens of soldiers surrounded her and beat her until she fell to the ground. She said: “They beat me, pulled my hair, and pushed me to the ground, and I said, ‘My soul is sacrificed for Al-Aqsa, and I will not leave this place. No deportation or beatings will deter us from the bond and coming to the nearest point to defend the mosque.’” Al-Aqsa.
The seventy-year-old station, Nafisa Khwais, was deported last Friday from Al-Aqsa Mosque for 6 months. Despite this, she arrived early today at the thresholds of Al-Aqsa in Rabat and was beaten and pushed. She said: “We are being chased inside and outside Al-Aqsa, and they return Jerusalem empty of its people, but we will not tire or get bored, strongly appealing to the world.” Traveling to Al-Aqsa, praying there, and defending it.”
The Palestinian Tamer Shalata explained that the persecution of the worshipers began in the morning hours, before the time of the raids, to evacuate Al-Aqsa of Muslims, by removing the worshipers from the area of “Al-Qibli Mosque Square,” and then removing us from Al-Aqsa completely, pointing out that about 20 young men were forcibly removed from Al-Aqsa and prevented from entering. presence there, and the forces returned with a new pursuit of us at Bab al-Silsilah, pushing and attacking to completely evacuate the area, even though the settlers deliberately provoked those present in the place.”
Children and youth were not spared from persecution and beating. The boy, Ibrahim, said: “I was taken out of Al-Aqsa by force, and in the Bab Al-Silsilah area, I was beaten. They do not want any Muslim in Al-Aqsa.”
With the beginning of the Hebrew New Year, the Jewish holiday season begins, followed by the Days of Repentance and then the Day of Atonement on September 25. And “Throne Day” from 9/30 to 10/7/2023.
Extremist Temple groups and organizations continue to publish daily calls to carry out the largest incursions into Al-Aqsa during this period, and the extremist “Temple Mount in Our Hands” group also announced the provision of free buses for settlers to transport them to Al-Aqsa
Source: Maan News Agency