{"id":196577,"date":"2019-10-20T08:23:31","date_gmt":"2019-10-20T08:23:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=196577"},"modified":"2019-10-23T06:53:25","modified_gmt":"2019-10-23T06:53:25","slug":"some-5000-settlers-storm-al-aqsa-mosque-during-sukkot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=196577","title":{"rendered":"Some 5,000 settlers storm Al-Aqsa Mosque during Sukkot"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\">Middle East Monitor &#8212; Oct 19, 2019<\/h1>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Settlers-at-the-Al-Aqsa-Mosque.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-196579\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Settlers-at-the-Al-Aqsa-Mosque-768x512.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"540\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Settlers-at-the-Al-Aqsa-Mosque-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Settlers-at-the-Al-Aqsa-Mosque-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Settlers-at-the-Al-Aqsa-Mosque.jpg 933w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">For the third consecutive day, around 2,473 settlers stormed <a style=\"color: #ccffff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20191018-like-the-ibrahimi-mosque-in-hebron-jerusalems-al-aqsa-mosque-is-also-under-threat\/\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Al-Aqsa Mosque<\/strong><\/span><\/a> and performed <em>Talmudic<\/em> rituals during the Jewish holiday of <em>Sukkot<\/em>, <em>Arab48.com<\/em> reported on Friday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">On Thursday, 816 settlers bombarded the holy site through Al-Magharbeh Gate. They besieged the mosque under heavy protection by the Israeli police.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">The largest number of <a style=\"color: #ccffff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20191018-wave-of-settler-violence-kicks-off-olive-harvest-in-west-bank\/\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>settlers<\/strong><\/span><\/a> to forcibly enter the third holiest site for all Muslims on the planet, during the ongoing season of the Israeli Jewish holidays was 1,000, occurring last Wednesday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Israeli occupation forces are imposing strict measures at the entrances of Al-Aqsa Mosque, preventing many Palestinians from entering the holy site, while also thoroughly inspecting those allowed to enter.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">The Union of Temple Mount Organisation called for its fans to increase their raids of Al-Aqsa Mosque during the Jewish holidays.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Chairman of Al-Aqsa Mosque, Sheikh Omar Al-Kiswani, confirmed that <em>Yeshiva<\/em> students were among the settlers who stormed the mosque, performing <em>Talmudic<\/em> rituals while inside, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #ccffff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20191018-unesco-calls-on-israel-to-stop-violations-in-jerusalem\/\">deliberately provoking Muslim worshipers<\/a><\/strong><\/span>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Meanwhile, the Palestinian Authority deputy minister of <em>Waqf<\/em>, Hussam Abdul-Rub, condemned the raids of the settlers and officials under the protection of the Israeli police.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">In a statement, Abdul-Rub denounced the detention and interrogation of <a style=\"color: #ccffff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20191017-israel-arrests-al-aqsa-mosque-preacher\/\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Al-Aqsa preacher, Sheikh Ismail Nawahdeh<\/strong><\/span><\/a>, stressing that this measure was aimed to scare the scholars and to silence them, as well as to deter their religious role.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20191019-some-5000-settlers-storm-al-aqsa-mosque-during-sukkot\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the third consecutive day, thousands of Israeli settlers protected by armed police, stormed the Al-Aqsa Mosque, Islam\u2019s third holiest site<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-196577","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-Israel_Anti-Semitism_Zionism_and_US-UK_allies"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196577","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=196577"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196577\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":196595,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196577\/revisions\/196595"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=196577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=196577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=196577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}