{"id":234848,"date":"2021-05-24T07:01:58","date_gmt":"2021-05-24T07:01:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=234848"},"modified":"2021-05-26T07:37:15","modified_gmt":"2021-05-26T07:37:15","slug":"backed-by-israeli-police-jewish-settlers-enter-al-aqsa-compound","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=234848","title":{"rendered":"Backed by Israeli police, Jewish settlers enter Al-Aqsa compound"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Al Jazeera \u2013 May 23, 2021<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p>Dozens of Jewish settlers, flanked by heavily armed Israeli special forces, entered the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound in occupied East Jerusalem in the early morning, further raising tensions hours after Palestinian worshippers were beaten and assaulted by Israeli police, according to the Islamic authority overseeing the site.<\/p>\n<p>Citing witnesses, Palestinian news agency WAFA said Israeli police had earlier on Sunday assaulted Palestinian worshippers who were performing dawn prayers at the mosque and \u201cexcessively beat\u201d them in order to make way for Israeli Jewish settlers to storm the compound \u2013 Islam\u2019s third-holiest site.<\/p>\n<p>WAFA added that at least six Palestinians had been arrested, including Fadi Alyan, a guard at the Al-Aqsa Mosque who tried to film the incident, and Ali Wazouz, an employee of the Islamic Waqf Council, the religious body appointed by Jordan to oversee the Al-Aqsa compound.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"ar\" dir=\"rtl\">\u0639\u0627\u062c\u0644| \u0628\u062d\u0645\u0627\u064a\u0629 \u0642\u0648\u0627\u062a \u0627\u0644\u0627\u062d\u062a\u0644\u0627\u0644.. \u0645\u0633\u062a\u0648\u0637\u0646\u0648\u0646 \u064a\u0642\u062a\u062d\u0645\u0648\u0646 <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D8%B3%D8%AC%D8%AF_%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%A3%D9%82%D8%B5%D9%89?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#\u0627\u0644\u0645\u0633\u062c\u062f_\u0627\u0644\u0623\u0642\u0635\u0649<\/a> \u0627\u0644\u0645\u0628\u0627\u0631\u0643. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/GO7iMcPrxN\">pic.twitter.com\/GO7iMcPrxN<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; \u0634\u0628\u0643\u0629 \u0642\u062f\u0633 \u0627\u0644\u0625\u062e\u0628\u0627\u0631\u064a\u0629 (@qudsn) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/qudsn\/status\/1396327003872190464?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 23, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"ar\" dir=\"rtl\">\u0634\u0627\u0647\u062f| \u0642\u0648\u0627\u062a \u0627\u0644\u0627\u062d\u062a\u0644\u0627\u0644 \u062a\u062e\u0631\u062c \u0634\u0628\u0627\u0646\u064b\u0627 \u0645\u0646 <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D8%B3%D8%AC%D8%AF_%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%A3%D9%82%D8%B5%D9%89?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#\u0627\u0644\u0645\u0633\u062c\u062f_\u0627\u0644\u0623\u0642\u0635\u0649<\/a>\u060c \u0642\u0628\u0644 \u0642\u0644\u064a\u0644. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ljOxSTIP9G\">pic.twitter.com\/ljOxSTIP9G<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; \u0634\u0628\u0643\u0629 \u0642\u062f\u0633 \u0627\u0644\u0625\u062e\u0628\u0627\u0631\u064a\u0629 (@qudsn) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/qudsn\/status\/1396355573625589767?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 23, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Translation: Protected by the occupation forces, settlers storm the holy Aqsa Mosque.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Occupation forces remove young men from Al-Aqsa Mosque moments ago.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Israeli police also increased restrictions at the gates leading to Al-Aqsa, barring worshippers under the age of 45 from entering the mosque.<\/p>\n<p>The ancient marble-and-stone compound \u2013 known to Muslims as al-Haram al-Sharif \u2013 houses Al-Aqsa Mosque and the 7th-century Dome of the Rock.<\/p>\n<p>Hoda Abdel-Hamid, reporting form Damascus Gate in occupied East Jerusalem said the makeup of those visitors are usually Jewish settlers or Israelis that are \u201cfar-right leaning or ultra-nationalists\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis comes at a time where the tensions are very high \u2026 Those visitors go in surrounded under the protection of Israeli forces,\u201d Abdel-Hamid said, adding that some scuffles that broke out.<\/p>\n<p>Those visitation rights were suspended from the holy month Ramadan because there were \u201ca lot of tensions\u201d in the compound, she said, but Sunday was the first day that they were reinstated.<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Israeli crackdown<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>The incident comes as a fragile ceasefire holds in the besieged Gaza Strip, days after the end of a brutal 11-day Israeli bombing campaign that killed at least 248 people, including 66 children.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2021\/5\/23\/backed-by-israeli-police-jewish-settlers-storm-al-aqsa-compound\">Continues \u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dozens of Jewish settlers accompanied by a heavily armed contingent of IDF personnel, entered the Al Aqsa Mosque on Sunday and assaulted worshippers. 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