Israeli forces storm al-Aqsa Mosque, clash with Palestinians

The Israeli forces stormed the holy site, which is located in the Israeli-occupied Old City of al-Quds, on Sunday and prevented all Palestinian woman and men under the age of 30 from entering it, the Palestinian Ministry of Endowments in East al-Quds said.
 
The ministry further said that the Israeli forces shut down five gates of the compound in the Old City and set up barricades to search and inspect Palestinian worshipers at all the gates that remained open.
 
The ministry said that armed Israeli forces then escorted almost 30 right-wing Israelies into the mosque.
 
Clashes also erupted between the worshipers and the Israeli forces, who reportedly fired stun grenades and rubber-coated bullets at the Palestinians.
 
Nasser Qaws, the director of the Palestinian Prisoner’s Society in al-Quds, said that the Israeli forces detained a number of Palestinian worshipers as they were exiting the compound.
 
During the clashes with Israeli forces, the Palestinians were also carrying the photographs of Ali Saad Dawabsha, the 18-month-old infant killed in an arson attack carried out by Israeli settlers in the occupied West Bank on July 31.
 
The al-Aqsa Mosque compound is a flashpoint holy Islamic site. The mosque is Islam’s third holiest after Masjid al-Haram in Mecca and Masjid al-Nabawi in Medina, Saudi Arabia. It is also considered religiously important by Jews.