Jerusalem: Israeli colonists, under the protection of Israeli occupation police, stormed the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound on Thursday, amid an unprecedented extension of the permitted hours for such incursions.
According to Palestine News and Information Agency - WAFA, the Jerusalem Governorate reported that the colonists performed Talmudic songs and prayers within the Al-Aqsa courtyards. These incursions took place during the morning hours, under the protection of the occupation forces.
The Governorate stated that these incursions constitute a dangerous escalation that undermines the historical and legal status quo of the Al-Aqsa Mosque and represents a blatant provocation of the feelings of Muslims in Jerusalem, Palestine, and the world at large. The colonists stormed the Al-Aqsa Mosque this morning, coinciding with the implementation of the new extension to the morning incursions, which began at 6:30 AM instead of 7:00 AM as was previously the practice.
The governorate explained that these incursions came after the so-called "Temple Mount organizations" announced an extension of the incursion times by an additional half hour, from 6:30 to 11:30 a.m., and then from 1:30 to 3:00 p.m., bringing the total to six and a half hours daily.
It emphasized that this extension reflects an acceleration in imposing new realities within the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound and entrenching the policy of temporal division, especially following its reopening after a 40-day closure.
It is worth noting that the incursions of colonists into the blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque date back to 2003, when they began on a daily basis under the protection of the occupation forces, before moving in 2008 to a more organized stage by allocating specific times for them. At the beginning, they were only three morning hours from 7:00 to 10:00, and since then, these times have gradually expanded year after year, within a systematic policy to impose a new reality inside the mosque, until today they have reached about six and a half hours daily, in the context of consolidating the temporal division and seeking to impose it completely.
