122 Settlers Storm Al-Aqsa Mosque Under Israeli Protection

Dozens of settlers stormed the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound this morning, Monday, under the protection of Israeli occupation forces.

The Palestinian news agency WAFA, citing the Jerusalem Governorate, reported that 122 settlers stormed the mosque and performed Talmudic and provocative rituals in its courtyards, under heavy protection from the occupation forces.

The mayor of Beit Ur al-Tahta, Khadija Othman, told WAFA that settlers attacked residents, including a Palestine TV crew, as they were heading to the northern part of the town to prepare a report on an incident that occurred days earlier in which three young men were injured, sustaining fractures and various bruises. The residents were surprised when gunfire was directed at them, resulting in one resident being shot in the shoulder. He was subsequently transferred to the Palestine Medical Complex.

Othman noted that the residents confronted the settlers, who attempted to assault them, before the settlers withdrew from the area.

Settlers also burned olive trees and stole agricultural equipment in the town of Atara, north of Ramallah, today. They raided the agricultural area near the new settlement outpost they established a few months ago, setting fire to a number of olive trees and Palestinian-owned land, causing significant damage. Wafa news agency reported that the settlers raided farmland belonging to Jawad Sarhanah, stealing agricultural equipment and wood before withdrawing.

In Hebron, settlers attacked Palestinian vehicles and blocked a road in the Yatta area, south of Hebron. They assaulted vehicles with clubs and pelted them with stones, causing damage to several. Settlers also blocked the road to the villages of Zuweidin, Khirbet Fateh Sidra, and Qamura, plowing and sowing Palestinian-owned land east of Shaab al-Batim village in Masafer Yatta. Simultaneously, they prevented Palestinian landowners from plowing their land and confiscated their tractors.