Loads of of Jewish settlers storm al-Aqsa compound

Loads of of Jewish settlers, flanked by closely armed Israeli special forces, ranking stormed al-Aqsa Mosque compound in occupied East Jerusalem to mark the Jewish vacation of Passover.

The Palestinian news agency WAFA reported that around 500 settlers entered al-Aqsa Mosque within the early hours of Thursday before performing Jewish spiritual rituals intention the Dome of the Rock Mosque.

Firas al-Dib, a spokesman for the Non secular Endowments Authority, said on the least 491 settlers and 13 special forces officers « broke into the compound », bringing the complete resolution of Jewish settlers illegally entering the spiritual build apart since Sunday to 1,731.

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The used marble-and-stone compound – diagnosed to Muslims as al-Haram al-Sharif – properties al-Aqsa Mosque, Islam’s third-holiest build apart, and the Seventh-century Dome of the Rock.

Visits by Jewish groups, together with politicians, ranking triggered violence over the years, with Palestinians fearing that Israeli hardliners try to take help a watch on of the build apart.

Also on Thursday, tons of of Jewish settlers, backed by Israeli forces, pushed their methodology correct into a non secular shrine in the occupied West Bank city of Nablus and started attacking Palestinians, per witnesses.

Dozens of Palestinian youths had converged on the build apart with a purpose to block the incursion but had been rapid dispersed by Israeli soldiers firing fling gas, rubber bullets and live ammunition.

Jews claim the build apart is the burial internet page of the biblical figure Joseph. Palestinians, however, misfortune this assertion, saying a necessary Muslim spiritual leader – Sheikh Youssef Dawiqat – is buried there.

The tomb, a build apart of violence and controversy, used to be turned over to the Palestinians in 2000, but Israel accused Palestinian mobs of desecrating the tomb.