Al-Aqsa Mosque

Israel’s Internal Security and Strategic Affairs Minister Gilad Erdan said yesterday that Jewish prayer in Al-Aqsa Mosque compound “may be planned in the future”.

A funeral has been held for a Palestinian man shot dead during a protest at the fence separating the Gaza Strip from the Israeli-occupied territories.

Jerusalem police chief Yoram Levy has recommended that Israeli members of parliament increase their raids on Al-Aqsa Mosque, Channel 7 reported yesterday.

Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif lashed out at the US administration for closing its eyes on the reality that the Saudi government played the main role in the 9/11 terrorist attack and then seeking to punish Iran which is the first enemy of terrorist groups.

A record number of 3,900 Israeli settlers entered the al-Aqsa Mosque compound in the Israeli-occupied Old City of East Jerusalem al-Quds in July, says a Palestinian official.

Masked youths discharged fireworks in the direction of Israeli police near Jerusalem’s most important mosque on Friday and police charged the mosque compound to confront them, Reuters Television footage showed.

The Israeli authorities have prevented official workers at Jerusalem’s Al-Aqsa Mosque from undertaking any restoration work inside the mosque compound, a Palestinian official revealed yesterday.

A group of Syrian intellectuals have met with the Secretary General of the Society in Defense of the Iranian Nation, Zahra Mostafavi.

Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Bahram Qasemi said on Friday that despite all conspiracies and fabricated crises, Palestine will continue to remain the first issue of the Islamic world until its complete liberation.

The news from the resignation by an unnamed senior official in the Trump administration, who described what has happened as “a reaction to the Jerusalem decision, has even brought more violence in West Bank and besieged Gaza Strip, demonstrating Trump's decision on Jerusalem.

On Thursday, dozens of Jewish settlers accompanied by Israeli police forced their way into al-Aqsa Mosque, according to a statement by Firas al-Dibis, a Palestinian official with Quds' Islamic Waqf.

Several Muslim scholars in Iran have joined the wave of condemnation of the US recognition of the occupied al-Quds as the capital of Israel in interviews with the Qods News Agency (Qodsna).