Israeli Forces Storm Al Aqsa Mosque, Arrest Hosts of Worshipers Today

Thousands of Muslims arrive at Al Aqsa Mosque today to perform Friday prayers today. But the correspondent of "Russia Today"  news website, stated that the Israeli forces stormed the mosque and arrested a number of the worshipers.

Such big numbers of worshipers gathered inside and out the mosque    for the first time since the outbreak of the pandemic of the Coronavirus (known also as COVID-19) last year.

The Israeli authorities have deployed units to the holy city since the early morning in Eastern Jerusalem and lanes of the ancient holy city along with sealing the crossroads.

Israel Police issued a statement says that today measurements aim at keeping the public order and arranging traffic movements.

Sheikh Azzam Al –Tameemy, Director-General of Jerusalem's Waqf and Al Aqsa Affairs, said that it is the first time  the worshiper headed for the mosque  on the first Friday of the holy months of Ramadan.

He revealed that the Israelis prevented all to reach the mosque except him on pretexts of confronting the pandemic.

He estimated that more than one hundred thousand worshipers came to pray in Al Aqsa today.

He added  that the worshipers came from the  West Bank, Jerusalem and its surroundings and from occupied territories behind the Green Line.

Palestinians flowed to the mosque despite restrictions imposed by occupation authorities.

Israel Police stipulated receiving doses of the anti-Corona vaccine to permit worshipers  to reach the mosque.

However, thousands of worshipers couldn't make for the mosque and Palestinian clashed with the Israeli troopers.

According to the Palestinian Ministry of Health, hospitals in the West Bank have no adequate doses of vaccines to vaccinate all population  there so patients with chronic diseases and persons above sixty years are vaccinated only Israel doesn't permit Muslims from the Gaza Strip to head for Al Aqsa to pray today.

On the first day of Ramadan, Israel silenced loudspeakers of Al Aqsa so the Jordanian government submitted an official memorandum to object  this decision.