Ramallah: A total of 10,620 extremist Jews have raided, prayed and performed Talmud rituals inside Al Haram Al Sharif of occupied East Jerusalem since the beginning of this year, said Palestinian activists closely monitoring and documenting the incursions.
According to local activists who requested anonymity to spare themselves Israeli detention, Israeli colonists usually raid the holy site in small groups to enable the Israeli police provide them with the necessary tight security.
The sources said that since the beginning of December, 677 colonists have raided Al Haram Al Sharif, which last September saw the biggest number of colonists raiding the holy site with 1,575 colonists raiding Al Haram Al Sharif to mark several Jewish feasts that fell during that month. The sources said Israeli colonists usually raid Al Aqsa Mosque via Al Magarebah (Moroccan) gate which is under full Israeli control and usually provides the colonists with a golden chance to carry out their daily incursions into the holy site.
The sources said the numbers of Al Murabiteen (activists defending the Muslim site) have dramatically decreased due to the strict Israeli measures adopted against them inside Al Haram Al Sharif. The Israeli police have without court orders imposed entry bans against Al Murabiteen where tens of Jerusalemite women have been on the Israeli ban lists and had not been allowed into the holy site after it was suspected that those women shouted Allahu akbar (God is the Greatest) during the incursions and raids of the colonists.
The sources said that women banned from the entry into the holy site have been holding a strike at various gates of the holy shrine seeking to be allowed to enter Al Aqsa Mosque but categorically refused to agree to the Israeli terms which instruct those women to not be involved in any way in confronting the raids and incursions of the colonists into Al Haram Al Sharif.
Jerusalem sources expressed concerns about the ramifications of the Israeli plans which seek to change the rules governing the holy site. Extremist Jews who revere the holy site as the location of their biblical temples usually force their way into the flashpoint holy site.
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