Last night, the Palestinians spent a difficult night in the Al-Aqsa Mosque, after the Israeli occupation forces stormed the Al-Qibli prayer hall in the Al-Aqsa Mosque in occupied Jerusalem, assaulted the women and men who were praying in it, and arrested hundreds.
The occupation forces had stormed Al-Aqsa Mosque during the Tarawih prayer to evacuate it from those who were in i’tikaaf, using sound bombs inside the mosque, and followed it by cutting off the electricity supply to the Al-Qibli prayer hall, in addition to destroying its doors and the door of its medical clinic.
The storming began after the occupation policemen climbed the roof of the Al-Qibli Chapel, broke its windows, and threw poison gas and stun grenades to force the worshipers inside to get out of it, and empty it after the worshipers closed its doors, armed with sticks and rifle butts, which they used in their brutal and barbaric attacks on the worshipers after storming it. .
Video clips filmed from inside the Al-Qibli Chapel showed the occupation policemen attacking the women and men in i’tikaaf with batons, after they fired sound and gas bombs inside it, to increase the tension after dozens of Jerusalemites flocked from occupied Jerusalem to the vicinity of the Old City to express their anger and protest, which forced The occupation forces reopened the doors of Al-Aqsa Mosque for worshipers to perform the Fajr prayer, but after the end of the prayer, they stormed Al-Aqsa squares again and attacked the fasting worshipers with rubber bullets and sound bombs without any prohibition or deterrence.
The bloody raids, firing rubber bullets and using batons, resulted in more than 200 injuries among the worshipers, some of which were serious, according to what Najeh Bakirat, Deputy Director General of the Islamic Endowments in occupied Jerusalem, while a spokesman for the Palestinian Red Crescent stated that the occupation forces prevented cars Palestinian ambulance and medical staff from entering Al-Aqsa Mosque.
The occupation forces also arrested about 500 detainees among the young men who were present in the Al-Qibli prayer hall, and the protesters outside the walls of Al-Aqsa Mosque, according to the Commission for Detainees and Ex-Prisoners’ Affairs in its latest report.
For its part, the Palestinian Prisoners Club said that the detainees will be transferred to a base "Mutsdat Adamim" military located between my region "Anata" And"Issawiya" In occupied Jerusalem, while a lawyer mentioned an information center "Sweet Valley" In Jerusalem, the detainees who were taken by bus to the center "Atarot" For interrogation, most of them will be released on conditions, most notably deportation from the Old City and Al-Aqsa Mosque.
It seems that these attacks are a prelude to preparation for the so-called Jewish Passover, in light of the settlement organizations’ calls to carry out massive incursions into Al-Aqsa today (Wednesday), and to slaughter the Passover offerings, as the Passover holiday begins after sunset today and continues until the 12th of April.
The so-called Temple groups had called for the storming of Al-Aqsa Mosque in conjunction with the beginning of Easter, and monitored movement "Returning to the Temple Mount" Extremists A reward of 20,000 shekels for any settler who manages to slaughter the so-called "Passover offering" Inside the Temple Mount, the movement also set aside an amount of five thousand shekels for any settler who is arrested or prevented from bringing the sacrifice to the Temple Mount, calling on the settlers to gather on Wednesday evening at Al-Aqsa to offer offerings.
And marches took place in many Palestinian cities in the occupied West Bank, in support of Al-Aqsa Mosque, and denouncing the violations of the Israeli occupation. Dozens of Palestinians participated in marches that took place in the cities of the Gaza Strip, where they lit car tires and chanted slogans calling for the need to support Al-Aqsa.
In conjunction with these attacks, sirens sounded in the settlements area of the so-called Gaza envelope, and residents of the southern region of the country said that strong explosions were heard, while the Iron Dome missiles tried to confront them, a few hours after the occupation forces stormed Al-Aqsa Mosque and assaulted the worshipers in it.
Warning sirens sounded again in the vicinity of the northern Gaza Strip after at least two rockets were fired from the Strip, where a spokesman for the occupation army announced, in a statement, that "9 rockets were detected, 4 of them were dropped by Iron Dome, while 4 others fell in open areas."At the time, the Sderot municipality reported that a missile hit a factory in the industrial zone, causing light material damage.
The Israeli occupation forces continued their aggression, so their warplanes launched, at dawn today, a series of raids on two sites of the Palestinian resistance in the south of Gaza City and the Nusseirat refugee camp in the center of the Strip. The Israeli artillery also bombed two sites of the Palestinian resistance near the borders in the north and south of the Gaza Strip.
In terms of official positions condemning these attacks, Nabil Abu Rudeineh, spokesman for the Palestinian Presidency, said that what the occupation is doing in terms of infringement of sanctities represents a relentless war against the Palestinian people and the Arab nation that will ignite fires in the region, while Muhammad Shtayyeh, the Palestinian Prime Minister, considered what is happening in Jerusalem "A major crime against worshipers"Pointing out that the Judaization of the blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque is done by preventing Muslim worshipers from worshiping and praying in it.
For his part, Ismail Haniyeh, head of the political bureau of Hamas, stressed that what is happening in the blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque "An unprecedented crime, and it has its aftermath"He called on the Palestinians in the West Bank and inside the Green Line to go to Al-Aqsa to protect it.
In addition, Ziyad al-Nakhala, Secretary General of the Islamic Jihad Movement, pointed out that what is happening in the blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque constitutes a serious threat to the sanctities, stressing the need for the Palestinian people, with all its components, to be ready for the inevitable confrontation in the coming days.
In the Arab reactions, the State of Qatar condemned in the strongest terms the Israeli occupation forces’ storming and vandalism of the blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque, assaulting worshipers there, preventing ambulances from reaching the injured, evacuating the worshipers in the Al-Qibli prayer hall, imposing restrictions on the mosque’s gates and preventing Palestinians from entering.
In a statement, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs considered these brutal criminal practices a serious escalation and blatant encroachment on the holy places, an extension of the policy of Judaizing Jerusalem, a violation of international law and international legitimacy resolutions, and a provocation of the feelings of more than two billion Muslims in the world, especially in the blessed month of Ramadan.
In turn, the Jordanian Ministry of Foreign Affairs condemned the storming and assaulting the worshipers, blaming the occupation authorities for the serious consequences of the escalation that may undermine efforts to achieve calm and stop the violence.
The Saudi Foreign Ministry also denounced what it described as"The blatant Israeli incursion into the courtyards of Al-Aqsa Mosque and the attack on worshipers"pointing out that "It follows with great concern the Israeli occupation forces storming the courtyards of Al-Aqsa Mosque, attacking worshipers, and arresting a number of Palestinian citizens.".
In the same context, the Arab League condemned the Israeli attacks, as Ahmed Aboul Gheit, Secretary General of the League, said: "The extremist tendencies that control the policy of the Israeli government will lead to widespread confrontations with the Palestinians if they are not put to an end".
Internationally, the Turkish Foreign Ministry issued a statement saying that Turkey strongly condemns the Israeli forces’ storming of Al-Aqsa Mosque and the arrest of large numbers of Palestinians, just as the Iranian Foreign Ministry denounced the Israeli storming of Al-Aqsa Mosque, calling on Islamic countries to respond strongly to these violations.
In London, Lord Tariq Ahmed, Secretary of State for the Middle East and Africa at the British Foreign Office, expressed his shock at the Israeli storming of Al-Aqsa Mosque, considering that "Violence fuels violence"And stressing that sacred places must be respected.
It is worth noting that during the past year, the Israeli forces arrested thousands of Palestinians in the West Bank, and killed more than 250 Palestinians, while more than 40 Israelis were killed in operations carried out by Palestinians in response to the occupation and harassment they are subjected to.
The Israeli entity had occupied East Jerusalem, including the Old City where the Temple Mount is located, in the 1967 war, and later annexed it in a move not recognized internationally.
