Tension rises in Aqsa Mosque after an Israeli policeman assaulted a Jerusalemite woman

Tension ran high in the Aqsa Mosque plazas on Sunday morning after an Israeli policeman assaulted a Jerusalemite woman for trying to confront settlers who broke into the Aqsa Mosque.

Media sources revealed that dozens of Jewish settlers earlier on Sunday stormed the Aqsa Mosque’s plazas from the Magharebah gate and provocatively performed Talmudic rituals under protection of Israeli policemen and Special Forces.

The sources said the Palestinian worshipers have been heading since the morning hours to the Aqsa Mosque to defend the holy site from settler incursions. They confronted the settlers by chants of Allahu Akbar until the Jewish settlers went out of the Mosque via Silsilah gate.

Clashes took place in the Mosque’s plazas between Jerusalemites and Israeli Special Forces when a policeman attacked a female Jerusalemite worshiper after she confronted settlers.

Policemen took photos of all of the Jerusalemite worshipers including women and children, the sources said. 



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