Hawzah News Agency-Dozens of extremist settlers, accompanied by Israeli intelligence agents, stormed  Al Aqsa  Mosque on Tuesday morning, via the Mughrabi gate, amid intensive military presence in the Old City district of annexed East Jerusalem.

 At 7.30 am, Israeli police opened the gate and spread out Special Forces and rapid intervention units and individuals in Al Aqsa’s yards to give the highest protection to the raiders.

Media expert in the affairs of Jerusalem and Al-Aqsa, Mahmoud Abu Atta, said that 154 extremist settlers, including seven intelligence agents, stormed into the mosque in large groups, and took a provocative tour around the courtyards, taking photos amid chanting Talmudic slogans.

Muslim devotees confronted them with Takbeer (chants of “Allahu Akhbar! (God is Greatest!)”