Israeli police besiege Aqsa Mosque, allow zionist settlers to defile it

The Israeli occupation police evacuated on Wednesday morning the Aqsa Mosque’s plazas from Palestinian worshipers and deployed its forces throughout the Mosque before allowing three groups of Jewish settlers to enter through Al-Maghariba Gate.

According to the Aqsa foundation for endowment and heritage, the Jewish settlers walked around in the southern and eastern sides of the Mosque’s courtyard and some of them performed rituals.

It said that Israeli armed police men were deployed at the Mosque’s gates and prevented many Palestinians from entering their Mosque.

Earlier, deputy speaker of the Knesset Moshe Feiglin had invited the Jews to defile the Aqsa Mosque today to celebrate their Passover festival.

The Jewish settlers intensified lately their provocative acts against the Aqsa Mosque, and in one incident, they erected a Jewish plastic candlestick at the eastern corner of the Aqsa Mosque.