Over 100 Zionist Settlers Raid, Desecrate Al Aqsa Mosque

According to local sources, a gang of Zionist settlers, escorted by Israeli regime troops, broke into al-Aqsa Mosque and carried out a round of sacrilegious tours.
 
Earlier on Monday, Israeli settlers’ groups called for increasing raids of al-Aqsa Mosque during the Jewish holidays which start on Thursday.
 
Palestinian Islamic institutions have warned of Israeli regime\'s plots against al-Aqsa Mosque amid intensification of Zionist settlers\' desecration of the holy Islamic site.
 
The Palestinian Islamic institutions expressed their rejection of Israel’s escalation of repressive, barbaric and police measures in east al-Quds and at the Aqsa Mosque during Jewish holidays and festivals, calling on the Arab and Islamic worlds to act to protect the holy city.
 
Over the past decades, the Israeli regime has tried to change the demographic makeup of al-Quds by constructing illegal settlements, destroying historical sites and expelling the local Palestinian population.
 
Palestinians and Muslims all over the world are extremely angry at Israeli attacks on the al-Aqsa Mosque, considering them the desecration of the holy Islamic site
 
Palestinians have declared al-Quds as the capital of a future Palestinian independent state, and that its heritage should remain intact.
 
The al-Aqsa compound, which lies in the Israeli-occupied Old City of al-Quds, is a flashpoint. The mosque is Islam’s third-holiest site after Mecca and Medina in Saudi Arabia.