Settlers storm Al-Aqsa; Netanyahu vows to stay
Approximately 570 Israeli settlers stormed the courtyards of Al-Aqsa Mosque this Sunday morning, under the protection of Israeli occupation forces. They performed Jewish rituals and prayers coinciding with the Jewish Yom Kippur holiday, one of the holiest festivals during which Jewish law mandates a full fast and suspends movement. This comes amid an escalation in the frequency of such incursions during Jewish holidays, alongside strict blockades by occupation police preventing worshippers from entering the mosque during these periods, in an attempt to impose a de facto situation on the ground and to divide the mosque temporally and spatially. Palestinians, especially Hamas, condemned these measures as an assault on the mosque’s identity and as provocation to Islamic sentiments, emphasizing that the mosque's entire area is a purely Muslim place of worship and that the occupation has no right to change its identity. This coincided with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s visit to the site, where he claimed it expressed the Jewish people's connection to the mosque and affirmed their presence in the area. Palestinian parties warned of attempts to establish new facts on the ground and to divide the mosque.
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