Hawzah News Agency - (Occupied Palestine) - More than 750 Israeli settlers have violated the al-Aqsa Mosque compound in the occupied Old City of al-Quds (East Jerusalem) under the strict protection of regime forces as part of recent mass break-ins into the Islamic holy site.

On Thursday morning, 754 Israeli settlers entered the compound from the Moroccan Gate, the Palestine Information Center, citing local sources, reported.

It added that settlers stormed the compound in nine groups and received information from rabbis about the alleged temple mount while dozens of police and security forces escorted the settlers during their tours at the holy site.

The al-Aqsa Mosque compound sits just above the Western Wall plaza and houses both the Dome of the Rock and the al-Aqsa Mosque.

Outside the compound and particularly at its gates, Israeli troops also imposed restrictions on Palestinian worshipers’ access to the mosque, demanded their ID cards, frisked them, and searched their bags, it added.

The report also said that many Muslim worshipers and al-Aqsa guards were present in different areas of the compound to protect it against further desecration and tried to prevent the settlers from walking around freely.