• » Israeli Troops Crackdown on Peaceful Protest at Home of Shiekh Sabri, Arrest Two
    June 3, 2020 7:25 PM – IMEMC News
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    Israeli troops, early on Wednesday, stormed the home of Ikrima Sabri, current head of the Higher Islamic Council and former Mufti, in the internationally-recognized occupied East Jerusalem.

    Palestinian sources in the occupied old city of Jerusalem said that the attack on Sabri’s home followed Israeli troops’ crackdown on a Palestinian solidarity protest, held by employees of the Palestinian Ministry of Waqf and Religious Affairs.

    No damage was reported inside the home of the high-ranking Palestinian scholar.

    The protest, outside of the former Mufti’s home, was in protest of Israeli troops and police harassment of Palestinian workers and guards at the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound of East Jerusalem, one of the holiest Islamic shrines in the world.

    The sources added that Israeli troops abducted two protesters and took them to a nearby Israeli custody center, in the Arab-Palestinian occupied city. (...)

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    •  » Israel Bans Sheikh Sabri from Al-Aqsa for Four Months
      June 5, 2020 3:32 AM – IMEMC News
      https://imemc.org/article/israel-bans-sheikh-sabri-from-al-aqsa-for-four-months

      Israeli occupation authorities in the internationally-recognized city of occupied East Jerusalem, reportedly imposed, on Thursday, a four-month-long entry ban on Muslim scholar and Imam of the Al-Aqsa Mosque, Sheikh Ikrima Sabri.

      According to the Israeli order, the senior Palestinian Muslim scholar and former Mufti of Jerusalem, will be banned from entering the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound, for a period of four months, starting Thursday.

      Local Palestinian media sources reported that last Friday, Israeli occupying authorities broke into the home of Sabri in the Al-Sewana neighborhood and handed the head of the Higher Islamic Council an Israeli order barring him access to the Al-Aqsa mosque for a period of one week.

      On Wednesday, Israeli troops dispersed a peaceful protest, outside of the home of Sabri, where dozens of locals, including employees of the Al-Aqsa mosque itself, protested at Israeli authorities’ frequent attacks on the mosque, its guards and other employees.

  • Israeli Forces Storm Al-Aqsa Mosque in the Middle of Holiday Prayers
    August 11, 2019 8:14 PM– IMEMC News
    https://imemc.org/article/israeli-forces-storm-al-aqsa-mosque-in-the-middle-of-holiday-prayers

    While tens of thousands of Muslim worshipers were praying in the al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem Sunday for Eid al-Adha, one of the most sacred holidays in the Muslim year, Israeli forces attacked the mosque, forcing the worshipers to flee in panic.

    The Israeli forces were accompanied by a large group of right-wing Israeli Jewish settlers, many of whom are part of an ideological network whose express aim is to destroy the mosque and replace it with a Jewish temple.

    This provocation against the mosque on one of the most sacred holidays of Islam is just the latest in a series of provocations conducted by Israeli authorities against the mosque, its staff and its worshipers in recent months.

    Video of the attack, posted on Twitter:

    https://twitter.com/Paltodaytv/status/1160441191890083840/video/1

    #فيديو
    قوات الاحتلال تقتحم المسجد الأقصى وإطلاق قنابل الصوت ومواجهات عنيفة الان pic.twitter.com/R6oQsScyrU

    — قناة فلسطين اليوم (@Paltodaytv) August 11, 2019

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    • Soldiers Injure Many Palestinians, Including A Medic, Abduct Three In Al-Aqsa Mosque
      August 12, 2019 2:55 PM
      https://imemc.org/article/soldiers-injure-many-palestinians-including-a-medic-abduct-three-in-al-aqsa-m

      Israeli soldiers invaded, on Sunday afternoon, the courtyards of the Al-Aqsa Mosque in occupied East Jerusalem, and injured several Palestinians, including a volunteer medic, in addition to abducting three others.

      Media sources said the soldiers assaulted many worshipers in al-Aqsa and hurled a concussion grenade at a medic trying to provide them with medical treatment, wounding him in the arm.

      The sources added that the soldiers abducted three young men, one of them has been identified as Mo’ab Abu Khdeir, 22, who was also assaulted and injured, while they were in the courtyard near the Dome of the Rock.

      It is worth mentioning that the Palestinian Red Crescent Society (PRCS) earlier reported that its medics provided treatment to 37 Palestinians, including 14 who were moved to the al-Makassed hospital, after the soldiers assaulted them, and fired gas bombs and concussion grenades at them, earlier Sunday.