Israeli settlers storm al-Aqsa Mosque to mark ‘Jerusalem Day’

Hundreds of Israeli settlers have stormed the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound and its surrounding areas in Jerusalem on Monday to mark so-called “Jerusalem Day”.

They waved Israeli flags, chanted and performed Talmudic rituals in the mosque.

Thousands gathered at the Western Wall in the early hours of the morning to perform prayers, on the occasion that commemorates the Israeli occupation of the east part of occupied Jerusalem after the 1967 war.

Thousands of heavily armed police and border police were dispatched in advance, as the settlers regularly assault, attack and harass Palestinians and shops in the Muslim quarter.