Occupied Jerusalem – Crowds of Palestinians from Jerusalem and the occupied interior performed the dawn prayer yesterday, in the blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque in the occupied city of Jerusalem.
And the main chapels of Al-Aqsa Mosque, especially Bab Al-Rahma Chapel, are large crowds of worshipers, who traveled to it from the city of Jerusalem and the occupied Palestinian interior in 1948, and those who were able to reach from the West Bank.
After the Fajr prayer, hundreds of worshipers held i’tikaaf in Al-Aqsa Mosque, amidst religious supplications, lessons, reading the Qur’an, and collectively eating breakfast meals, which continues until Friday prayers are performed in the mosque.
Under the protection of the occupation police, settlers performed provocative dances and songs yesterday morning near the Lions Gate, one of the gates of Al-Aqsa Mosque.
The crowds of worshipers in Al-Aqsa Mosque came after the provocative and provocative march of “Israeli flags”, which was carried out by settler groups in the streets of the Old City of occupied Jerusalem.
The occupation forces had tightened their military measures in the occupied city of Jerusalem and its old town, and turned it into a military barracks, under the pretext of securing the march.
The occupation authorities pushed thousands of its soldiers to the occupied city of Jerusalem, set up military checkpoints on the main roads, and closed some main axes.
Hamas had called for participation in the Great Dawn Campaign and for the continuation of Rabat and i’tikaaf in the blessed Al-Aqsa, renewing the pledge of allegiance to defend and protect it from the occupation.
The movement also called on the masses to mobilize all determination, energies, and determination to continue the i’tikaaf in it, and to enhance attendance in its courtyards.
The “Great Dawn” campaign comes to mobilize determination and wide participation in the Fajr prayer, and it returned in a reality that witnessed field and political changes, in the context of the struggle with the occupation.
In addition, a number of Jerusalemites were injured and bruised, yesterday, as a result of the occupation forces assaulting them at the Lions’ Gate in the Old City of occupied Jerusalem, to protect the settlers who stormed the place and performed Talmudic rituals.
The occupation forces fired stun grenades at the worshipers as they flocked to Al-Aqsa Mosque to perform Friday prayers, including elderly and women, and assaulted the worshipers with batons, in conjunction with the settlers’ presence in the place.
Eyewitnesses told “Safa” agency that the worshipers deliberately confronted the settlers while they were at the Lions’ Gate as they flocked to Al-Aqsa Mosque to perform Friday prayers.
A number of worshipers were injured after the occupation forces assaulted them at Lions Gate, and ambulance crews transferred them to Al-Aqsa Mosque to provide them with the necessary first aid in its clinic.
Yesterday, the occupation forces arrested a young Jerusalemite from Bab al-Amoud in occupied Jerusalem, after settlers assaulted him by beating him.
Yesterday morning, worshipers from inside Al-Aqsa Mosque confronted a provocative march of settlers outside Bab Al-Hadid, one of the mosque’s gates, and chanted the takbeers and slogans of support for Al-Aqsa.
A provocative march was launched by the settlers in the vicinity of the walls of the Old City of occupied Jerusalem, stationed at the town gates, performing Talmudic rituals and provocative dances, and raising the Israeli flag, until it reached the Damascus Gate.
Settlers also stormed the vicinity of the gates of Al-Aqsa Mosque, danced, reveled, and performed Talmudic rituals to provoke the worshipers as they flocked to the mosque, under the protection of the occupation police.
The settlers attacked Jerusalemites’ vehicles as they stormed the Lions’ Gate, smashing their windows.
35 thousand worshipers maximum
Tens of thousands of worshipers performed Friday prayers at the blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque, despite the attacks of the occupation forces and settlers on them at the Lions Gate.
And the Islamic Endowments Department in Jerusalem reported that 35,000 worshipers performed Friday prayers at the blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque.
The preacher of Al-Aqsa Mosque, Sheikh Muhammad Sarandah, said, “What is happening in Jerusalem, Al-Aqsa, and Palestine under the eyes of the silent world bears its responsibility for carrying the banners of injustice and aggression against Jerusalem and its people. Freedom of worship preserved by international laws?
“The councils that claim to preserve human rights, and the UN bodies that wear masks at times, and which recognize the legitimacy of the attacks at other times, remain responsible for these abuses that our city witnessed,” he said.
And he addressed the Almoravids, “Blessed are you, O stationed and those who are steadfast in your loyalty to God, His Messenger, and the believers.
In the field, three Palestinians were injured by rubber-coated metal bullets and dozens of others suffocated, as a result of the Israeli occupation forces suppressing the participants in the weekly Kafr Qaddum anti-settlement march, east of Qalqilya.
The march started, after performing Friday prayers, from the Omar bin Al-Khattab Mosque, with the participation of hundreds of villagers, in commemoration of the 75th anniversary of the Nakba and denouncing the march of settler flags in Jerusalem and the settlers’ repeated incursions into Al-Aqsa Mosque, with the support of the Israeli occupation government.
The media spokesman for the “Fatah” movement in Qalqilya, Murad Shteiwi, explained that the occupation soldiers stormed the town, climbed the roofs of the people’s homes, and fired metal bullets and poison gas bombs at the participants in the march, which led to the injury of three young men with bullets and dozens of suffocation. They were treated in the field.
Yesterday, a number of Palestinians suffocated during clashes with the Israeli occupation forces in the towns of Beita and Qaryut, south of Nablus, and the village of Beit Dajan, to the east.
The official in charge of the settlement file in the northern West Bank told Wafa that clashes broke out in Qaryut, after the settlers, under the protection of the occupation forces, stormed the water spring area in the village, during which the occupation soldiers fired live bullets, stun grenades and tear gas at the protesters, resulting in an injury. A number of them suffocate.
Medical sources reported that 12 demonstrators suffocated due to gas inhalation during clashes in the eastern region in Beit Dajan, while two people suffocated during clashes in Jabal Sabih in the town of Beita, and they were treated in the field.
