Extremist settlers storm Al-Aqsa mosque complex
Date
2/20/2017 2:16:27 PM
(MENAFN- Jordan News Agency) Ramallah, Feb.19 (Petra) -- Groups of extremist Jewish settlers, early Sunday, stormed Jerusalem's flashpoint Al-Aqsa Mosque compound, according to a Palestinian sources.
General Director of the Islamic Awqaf and al-Aqsa Affairs, sheikh Azzam Al-Khatib, said that Israeli troops stormed the Muslims holy shrine entering through the Bab Al-Magharbeh gate under heavy protection of Israeli special police.
In a phone call with Petra's reporter in Ramallah, Al-Khatib said that the settlers provocatively toured the Al-Aqsa yards and performed their Talmudic rituals.
Muslim worshippers inside the mosque, as well as Al-Aqsa guards confronted the settlers, who toured the sacred shrine of Muslims under the protection of the Israeli soldiers, he added.
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