{"id":291574,"date":"2024-07-20T05:25:57","date_gmt":"2024-07-20T05:25:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=291574"},"modified":"2024-07-21T07:04:58","modified_gmt":"2024-07-21T07:04:58","slug":"ben-gvir-settlers-storm-al-aqsa-mosque","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=291574","title":{"rendered":"Ben-Gvir, settlers storm Al-Aqsa Mosque"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Al Mayadeen \u2013 July 18, 2024<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p>Israeli extremist and Police Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir and a bandwagon of settlers stormed the sacred al-Aqsa Mosque on Thursday morning, under heavy protection from Israeli police officers and occupation forces,\u00a0<strong>Al Mayadeen<\/strong>&#8216;s correspondent reported.<\/p>\n<p>Ben-Gvir made his way into the compound through the al-Magharba gate and walked through the eastern quarter, accompanied by a large number of Israeli officers.<\/p>\n<p>Concurrently, Israeli authorities banned all Muslim worshipers from entering the compound.<\/p>\n<p>This is the third time that Ben-Gvir <a href=\"https:\/\/english.almayadeen.net\/news\/politics\/ben-gvir-violates-status-of-al-aqsa-mosque--claims-sovereign\">has provoked Palestinians<\/a>\u00a0in less than a year by storming the holy site with other Israeli settlers under IOF protection.<\/p>\n<p>Ben-Gvir and other extremists refer to the al-Aqsa Mosque compound as the Temple Mount, where a third and final temple should be erected, according to an end-of-times prophecy.<\/p>\n<p>Jewish extremists have made a point of Judaizing Islamic and Christian sites across occupied Palestine, especially in occupied al-Quds. Their continuous efforts threaten the historical significance and religious sanctity of sites such as the Ibrahimi Mosque in al-Khalil and Al-Aqsa Mosque compound in al-Quds.<\/p>\n<p>Judaization has not only affected religious sites but has also targeted living quarters and neighborhoods in al-Quds that have been demographically and aesthetically altered by Israeli governments.<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/odfffWrNAWc?si=Ur3qzCOlqBvhPN5L\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><br \/>\n&#8212;<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/english.almayadeen.net\/news\/politics\/ben-gvir--settlers-storm-holy-al-aqsa-mosque\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the third time in less than a year Israeli police minister Ben Gvir accompanied by settlers and protected by the security forces stormed the Al Aqsa mosque, a site considered holy by Muslims. Was this deliberate provocation an attempt to sabotage peace talks?  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":291575,"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-291574","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","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\/291574","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=291574"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291574\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":291576,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291574\/revisions\/291576"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/291575"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=291574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=291574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=291574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}