Al-Aqsa Mosque

Zionist regime’s Prime Minister Yair Lapid led a security meeting yesterday and agreed to allow settlers to raid Al-Aqsa Mosque during the Jewish holidays, Channel 13 reported.

The repeated Israeli attacks against Al-Quds and the Al-Aqsa Mosque, including the escalating Jewish settlers' break-ins into the holy site, require the support of Arab and Islamic countries, Sheikh Ekrima Sabri, the preacher of the Al-Aqsa Mosque has said.

Allowing Israeli settlers to continue their violations at the Al-Aqsa Mosque, the latest of which was when a number of Israeli settlers posed in immodest clothes in its courtyards desecrating the sanctity of the Muslim holy compound, is a dangerous escalation and heinous crime that defiles one of the Muslims' most sacred sites.

The Palestinian Authority’s foreign ministry has condemned Israeli settlers’ storming of al-Aqsa mosque through the Lions’ Gate, one of the gates leading to the al-Aqsa Mosque compound in the Old City of occupied East al-Quds.

Today marks the anniversary of the 1969 arson attack on Al-Aqsa Mosque by the Zionist criminal, Denis Michael Rohan, with apparent complicity by the Israeli occupation authorities.

August 21 marks the 53rd anniversary of a terrible attack against an Islamic holy site, when a Protestant extremist from Australia named Denis Michael Rohan set fire to the al-Aqsa Mosque in Al-Quds, destroying large parts of the site and irreplaceable artifacts.

Sheikh Ekrima Sabri, head of the Higher Islamic Council in Occupied Al-Quds, has warned that Al-Quds and the Aqsa Mosque are going through very critical and difficult times.

The Palestinian Legislative Council (PLC) warned that the continued Israeli crimes committed against the Al-Aqsa Mosque would lead to an “explosion”.

Dozens of Jewish settlers desecrated the Aqsa Mosque in Occupied Al-Quds on Wednesday morning and later in the afternoon.

Dozens of extremist settlers desecrated the Aqsa Mosque in Occupied Al-Quds under tight police protection on Monday morning and later in the afternoon.

The Hamas Movement warned of an Israeli plot that aims at demolishing part of the Al-Aqsa Mosque and changing its landmarks.

Dozens of extremist Jewish settlers desecrated the Aqsa Mosque in Occupied Al-Quds under tight police protection on Monday morning and later in the afternoon.

Tens of thousands of Muslim worshipers were able to perform the Eid al-Adha prayer at the Aqsa Mosque on Saturday morning despite Israeli movement and access restrictions.

The Islamic Waqf (Endowment) department, which is in charge of Al-Aqsa Mosque and Muslim holy places in Al-Quds, warned that any Israeli changes to the decades-old status quo at the walled compound of Al-Aqsa Mosque/Al-Haram Al-Sharif could ignite a religious war in the area.

The Palestinian Islamic Resistance Movement Hamas rejects the attempts by the Israeli occupation to register the ownership of Palestinian endowment land near the Old City of Al-Quds and the Al-Aqsa Mosque for Israeli settlers.

Hamas official called on the Arab and Muslim world to protect Al-Quds and the Al-Aqsa Mosque with every means possible.

Hundreds of Israeli settlers roamed the Al-Aqsa compound in separate groups on Sunday and Monday, as Israeli police arrested six Palestinians and tightened police control over the occupied city.

The director of the al-Aqsa Mosque compound says Israel’s unrelenting violations at the holy site will lead to what he has termed uncontrollable explosion.

Scores of Israeli settlers escorted by Israeli police broke into the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound in occupied Al-Quds and performed rituals across its courtyards, as Muslim worshipers were forced by police to stay inside the southern building inside the compound, according to witnesses.

Jordan’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates condemned the storming of al-Aqsa mosque in Al-Quds by Israeli extremists and a Knesset member, warning of escalation due to permitting an Israeli flag march in Al-Quds, according to Jordan’s Petra news agency.

The Palestinian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates has condemned Israeli settler’s latest raids on the al-Aqsa Mosque compound in the occupied Old City of al-Quds, saying the Tel Aviv regime is fanning the flames of religious tensions by allowing such incursions into the holy site.

A member of the Islamic-Christian Committee in Support of Al-Quds and its Sanctuaries has called for civil disobedience in occupied Al-Quds next Sunday to protect Al-Aqsa Mosque from the planned incursion by illegal Jewish settlers. Father Manuel Musallam made his call on Monday in a public statement.

Calls by the radical "temple mount" groups to storm the Al-Aqsa Mosque on Sunday, which marks the anniversary of Nakba, under the protection of the Israeli occupation authorities, are a grave escalation aimed at provoking the feelings of the Palestinian people and the Arab and Muslim world and at pushing for an open conflict that the Israeli occupation bears full responsibility for its repercussions.

Dozens of Jewish settlers escorted by police forces desecrated the Aqsa Mosque on Sunday morning, amid restrictions on the entry of Palestinian citizens, especially young men and women, to the Islamic holy site.

Fresh clashes broke out Thursday between Palestinians and Israeli police at the Al-Aqsa Mosque after the flashpoint Al-Quds holy site was reopened to Jewish visitors.

The Palestinian resistance movement Hamas slams Zionist regime's raids at Al-Aqsa Mosque, warns against crossing 'red lines' at holy site.

Egypt and Israel have been at odds over the "provocative" situation at Al-Aqsa Mosque, senior Palestinian sources told Rai Al-Youm on Friday.

Zionist regime’s military forces have raided the al-Aqsa Mosque compound in the occupied Old City of al-Quds as worshipers gathered for dawn prayers, with medics reporting that 43 Palestinians were injured as a result of the Israeli violence.

A respected and senior Palestinian cleric has strongly condemned the latest wave of Israeli aggression against the al-Aqsa Mosque compound in the occupied Old City of al-Quds, saying that the Tel Aviv regime is set to further desecrate the holy site and facilitate relentless incursions by extremist settler groups.

Palestinians have turned out en masse for prayers at al-Aqsa Mosque as a portrayal of national solidarity against the occupying Israeli regime, as freedom seekers worldwide prepare to mark the International Quds Day.

Palestinians are today more united in their resistance and awareness of Israel’s designs than ever before. In fact, many of the defenders of Al-Aqsa come from these very communities. If Israel continues with its provocations, it risks another Palestinian revolt like that of last May, which tellingly started in East Jerusalem.

The Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) will hold an exceptional open-ended meeting of the Executive Committee at the level of permanent representative at the headquarters of the General Secretariat on 25 April 2022, to discuss the escalating Israeli violations against al-Aqsa Mosque, at the request of the Republic of Indonesia.

At least 150,000 Palestinians have thronged al-Aqsa Mosque in the occupied Old City of al-Quds to attend Friday prayers amid heightened tensions over Israeli raids.

Iran’s ambassador to the United Nations (UN) has denounced deadly raids by Israeli forces against Palestinians in and around the al-Aqsa Mosque compound in the occupied Old City of al-Quds, urging immediate action to halt the aggression.

Zionist regime’s military forces have raided the al-Aqsa Mosque compound in the occupied Old City of al-Quds as worshipers gathered for dawn prayers, with medics reporting that more than forty Palestinians were injured as a result of the Israeli violence.

Israeli settlers' incursions at the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound "won't change its Islamic character," said Hamas' Political Chief on Thursday, Anadolu News Agency reports.

More than 700 Israeli settlers forced their way into the flashpoint Al-Aqsa Mosque complex in occupied East Al-Quds on Thursday, according to a Palestinian agency, and Anadolu News Agency reports.

Hamas says Israeli attacks on the Gaza Strip will only strengthen the resolve of the resistance movement to support and defend fellow Palestinians in occupied al-Quds against the regime’s acts of aggression.

For the fifth day in a row, Israeli occupation forces have raided al-Aqsa Mosque using tear gas, and rubber-coated steel bullets, in an attempt to evacuate the yards from Muslim worshipers for presence of Israeli settlers at the holy site.

Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian deplores the Zionist regime’s attacks on Palestinian worshippers in the al-Aqsa Mosque’s compound.

Leader of Ansarullah, Abdul-Malik Al-Houthi said that storming Al-Aqsa Mosque and attacking worshipers showed the aggression of the Israeli enemy against Islam and its sanctities.

The Jordanian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates summoned the Israeli Chargé d'Affairs in Amman to protest against the illegal and provocative Israeli violations at the al-Aqsa Mosque / Al-Haram Al-Sharif in occupied Al-Quds and urge Israel to respect the freedom of worship, according to Jordan’s Petra news agency.

“The escalation of Zionist aggression during the holy month of Ramadan against Palestinians and Al-Aqsa Mosque is rooted in the revelation of Arab-Zionist relations,” according to the statement issued by the Defense of the Palestinian Nation.

Masjid (Mosque) Al-Aqsa has been in danger since the Israeli Occupation of East Al-Quds began in 1967. Since the occupation, the Israeli authorities have allowed Israeli extremists to intimidate and violate the sanctity of Masjid Al-Aqsa. However, in the past decade, the attacks on Masjid Al-Aqsa have been directed by the Israeli political elites.

Palestinian Islamic resistance movement, Hamas has once again emerged as a major player in events taking place in Al-Quds and the West Bank, Israeli daily Jerusalem Post reported.

Malaysia strongly condemns the audacious actions of the Israeli soldiers who encroached the Al-Aqsa mosque on Friday, and attacked the Palestinians including medical workers and journalists.

Thousands of Palestinians attempted to visit the al-Aqsa mosque in Al-Quds for morning prayers on 2nd Friday of Ramadan as tensions remain high.

A collective of Gaza Strip resistance groups on Wednesday called on their followers to defend the al-Aqsa Mosque as tensions are running high across Israel and the West Bank.