Zionist Forces Desecrate Al-Aqsa Mosque

TEHRAN (IQNA) - The Zionist regime’s police on Sunday rounded up a number of peaceful Palestinian sit-inners and worshipers inside and around al-Aqsa Mosque at a time when Israeli settler gangs desecrated the Islamic holy compound.

 A Palestinian Information Center (PIC) correspondent quoted local sources as reporting that the Israeli occupation officers nabbed Palestinian female sit-inner Hanadi al-Halwani and youngster Tamer Shala’ta at the Asbat gate, moments before they dragged them to a nearby police station.

Meanwhile, at least 55 Israeli extremist settlers, escorted by troops of Israeli occupation special units and intelligence officers, reportedly stormed Muslims’ holy al-Aqsa Mosque via the Maghareba gate on Sunday and defiled its courtyards.
One of al-Aqsa’s supervision personnel said the assailers performed a series of provocative rites and recitals, paying no heed to the sentiments of scores of Muslim worshipers who were praying in the Mosque.