Dozens of Israeli colonists, heavily protected by occupation police forces, broke into the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound on Thursday.

According to the Jerusalem Governorate, the settlers, led by notorious extremist and former Knesset member Yehuda Glick, stormed the sacred compound in organized groups and performed Talmudic rituals at the site. Glick is well-known for his radical calls to increase Jewish settler presence inside Al-Aqsa, Islam’s third holiest mosque.

The latest incursion represents a direct assault on Palestinian sovereignty and the religious sanctity of Al-Aqsa, which has faced repeated attempts by Israeli settler groups to change the historical status quo. These incursions are widely viewed by Palestinians as part of a systematic campaign to Judaize Jerusalem and undermine Muslim control over the holy site.

Such raids routinely provoke anger across the occupied Palestinian territories and the wider Muslim world, as they constitute a serious desecration of one of Islam’s most revered places of worship.

Palestinians and Islamic authorities have repeatedly warned that these repeated violations, carried out under the protection of Israeli occupation forces, risk further escalation and threaten regional stability. (ILKHA)