Under heavy protection from Israeli occupation forces, illegal Israeli settlers stormed on Sunday morning the courtyards of the blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque from Al-Mughrabi Gate.

Since the morning, the Israeli occupation deployed its forces and special units in the courtyards of Al-Aqsa and at its gates in order to secure the settlers' incursions.

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The Islamic Endowments Department in occupied Al-Quds confirmed that dozens of settlers stormed Al-Aqsa Mosque, organized provocations in its courtyards, and performed Talmudic rituals in Bab Al-Rahma area, east of the Mosque.

This comes as the occupation police continue to impose restrictions on the entry of Palestinian worshippers to Al-Aqsa Mosque, check their identities, and detain some of them at its external gates.

Al-Aqsa Mosque witnesses daily violations and incursions by illegal Israeli settlers, under the protection of the occupation police, in an attempt to impose full control over the Mosque and divide it temporally and spatially.

Last week, Palestinian Resistance factions in the Gaza Strip warned in a statement that daily raids of Al-Aqsa Mosque carried out by the Israeli settlers under the protection of the police and the Israeli occupation forces are a severe violation of the Mosque's sanctity.

The extremist occupation government meeting in one of the tunnels under the Al-Buraq Wall will not give it legitimacy, as Al-Aqsa Mosque will remain a purely Islamic holy site, and all of the occupation's efforts to divide it will be met with failure, the factions stressed.

They underlined that the Israeli occupation bears full responsibility for the repercussions of its continued violation of the sanctity of Al-Aqsa Mosque and its provocations, stressing that it will not allow these violations to continue.

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