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Around 800 settlers enter Al-Aqsa Mosque under Israeli police protection
Around 800 Israeli settlers entered Al-Aqsa Mosque in occupied East Jerusalem on Thursday under Israeli police protection. The Jerusalem Islamic Waqf Department said visits to the site increase during Jewish holidays and that thousands of settlers had entered Al-Aqsa Mosque in previous days.
Al-Aqsa Mosque in occupied East Jerusalem saw around 800 Israeli settlers enter the site on Thursday under Israeli police protection.
The Jerusalem Islamic Waqf Department said the entries began in the morning. Footage showed the settlers performing Jewish religious rituals, praying, singing and dancing at the site.
Entries intensify during Sukkot
Far-right groups called for large-scale raids on Al-Aqsa Mosque during the week-long Sukkot holiday, which began on Saturday.
According to data from the Jerusalem Islamic Waqf Department, more than 1,500 settlers entered Al-Aqsa Mosque on Sunday, more than 1,700 on Monday, more than 1,400 on Tuesday and more than 2,400 on Wednesday.
The settlers enter the site through the Moroccan Gate, located on the western wall of Al-Aqsa Mosque, under Israeli police protection. Israeli police have allowed settlers to enter Al-Aqsa Mosque since 2003.
Waqf Department calls for entries to be halted
The Jerusalem Islamic Waqf Department renewed its call for settler entries into Al-Aqsa Mosque to be halted. The department said Israeli authorities had ignored these calls.
The Jewish holidays began with the Hebrew New Year, Rosh Hashanah, on September 12 and 13. Yom Kippur was observed on September 21 and 22, while the Sukkot holiday runs from September 26 to October 2. Simchat Torah is observed on October 3.
Jerusalem’s future status remains under debate
Palestinians argue that Israel has intensified decades-long policies aimed at changing the identity of East Jerusalem and Al-Aqsa Mosque.
Palestinians also regard East Jerusalem as the capital of the state they seek to establish in the future, based on international legal decisions that do not recognize Israel’s occupation of East Jerusalem in 1967 or its annexation in 1980.
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