Israeli forces withdraw from the yards of Al-Aqsa Mosque
The director of Al-Aqsa Mosque, Sheikh Omar Al-Kiswani, announced in a statement to Anadolu Agency, today, Tuesday, that the Israeli forces have completely withdrawn from the Al-Aqsa Mosque squares, outside its main gates.
Sheikh Omar Al-Kiswani said: “I am in the Al-Aqsa Mosque, and there has been a withdrawal from all squares outside the main gates.” He pointed out that there are about 3,000 protesters inside Al-Aqsa Mosque now.
Sheikh Omar Al-Kiswani said of the clashes that took place in the squares of Al-Aqsa Mosque on Monday, that “it was a difficult day as a result of the barbaric attack and the occupation forces’ assault on worshipers and protesters in Al-Aqsa Mosque.”
He explained that the Israeli occupation “wants to satisfy the extreme right at the expense of Palestinian blood, Islamic sanctities, especially the Al-Aqsa Mosque, and the Arabism of Al-Quds Al-Sharif, but it has failed to impose this equation.”
He stressed that satisfying the extreme Israeli right “is dragging the whole region into a war whose extent is unknown.”
He emphasized that “the people of Palestine were the ones who set out to travel and thwarted the extremists’ plot to storm Al-Aqsa.”
Settlement groups announced at the beginning of Ramadan that a “major storming” of the Al-Aqsa Mosque was carried out on Ramadan 28, on the occasion of the so-called Hebrew “Jerusalem Day,” the day on which Israel occupied East Jerusalem in 1967.
Relative calm prevails throughout the Al-Aqsa Mosque, in East Jerusalem, since dawn today, Tuesday, after a day of violent confrontations between Palestinians and Israeli forces.
Thousands of Palestinians performed dawn prayers in the mosque, after the Israeli forces withdrew from it at midnight last night.
The Israeli forces stormed the Al-Aqsa Mosque more than once on Monday, injuring 520 people, according to the Palestinian Red Crescent Society.
Since the beginning of Ramadan, the city of Jerusalem has witnessed attacks by Israeli forces and settlers in the Bab al-Amud area, the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood, and the vicinity of the Al-Aqsa Mosque.
