Ahlul Bayt News Agency - Jewish extremist groups stormed on Sunday the plazas of the Aqsa Mosque from the Magharebah gate under tight security measures by heavily armed Israeli police and Special Forces.
In press statements, one of the Mosque’s guards said 18 settlers provocatively stormed the plazas of the Aqsa Mosque and tried to tour its courtyards but the Muslim worshipers confronted them.
The Israeli policemen stationed at the various gates of the Mosque tightened the security measures against the Palestinian worshipers especially the Jerusalemites who enter the Mosque.
The repeated incursions of settlers into the Mosque amid Israeli police protection are seen as attempts to take control over the holy site.
A state of Israeli military alert prevailed in Occupied Jerusalem as Special Forces were deployed around the city to guard against any confrontations that may erupt especially in the wake of killing a Palestinian minor at one of Israeli checkpoints at dawn Saturday.
In a similar context, an Israeli court decided on Sunday to bar three Palestinian women from entering the Aqsa Mosque for 45 days.
Media sources revealed that the Israeli court imposed fines estimated at 500 shekels in addition to a third party bail estimated at 5000 shekels.
The Israeli policemen rounded up the three women on Thursday in the Aqsa Mosque. They were released in the evening on the condition to attend a trial on Sunday morning.
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