Palestinian Foreign Ministry condemns storming al-Aqsa Mosque by occupation forces

Occupied Jerusalem, SANA- A huge numbers of the Israeli occupation forces stormed al-Aqsa Mosque, and arrested more than 400 worshipers.

Scores of worshipers were injured on Tuesday when the occupation forces stormed the Mosque and fired bullets and toxic gas bombs against them.

While the Israeli settlers call for escalating the storming into al-Aqsa, the Palestinian national forces’ underlines the necessity of stationing at the Mosque and confronting the settlers.

The Palestinian Ministry of Foreign Affairs has condemned the Israeli occupation forces’ storming of al-Aqsa Mosque and assaulting the worshipers which caused the injury and arrest of scores of them, in addition to breaking the windows and causing huge damage to its facilities

This aggression expresses the occupation’s policy which aims at changing the legal and historical situation in the mosque, in addition to Judaizing the city of Jerusalem and targeting the sanctities, the Ministry was quoted by Wafa News Agency as saying in a statement Wednesday, waring against the devastating repercussions of the Israeli aggression.

These provocative acts came as a part of the systematic policy of the occupation government to attack Palestinian holy places in order to obliterate their identity, seize them and solve its internal crises at the expense of the Palestinian people’s rights, according to the statement

Through the statement, the Ministry held the occupation government the whole responsibility for the escalation, calling on the international community to provide international protection for al-Aqsa and Jerusalem.

Rafah al-Allouni/ Hala Zain

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