© AHMAD GHARABLI/AFP VIA GETTYIsrael deployed thousands of police to secure the incursion and prevent Palestinians from entering the holy site
The raid of the holy site came as Israeli settlers prepared to participate in the annual flag march of "Jerusalem Day," commemorating the 1967 six-day war that saw Israel occupy East Jerusalem and the West Bank.
The Islamic Endowments Department in Jerusalem reported that at least 1,091 settlers stormed Al-Aqsa Mosque compound.
According to Roya, the settlers performed Talmudic rituals and dances during their incursion, while Israeli forces prevented Palestinians from entering the holy site.
The provocative acts by Israeli setters break decades-long international agreements that prohibit incursions, prayers, and rituals by non-Muslims.
Local reports say the setters were joined by rabbis and far-right former Israeli lawmaker Moshe Feiglin. The settlers performed Jewish rituals near the Al-Qattanin market and Al-Qattanin Gate, one of the main entrances of the courtyards of Al-Aqsa.
Comment: Allegedly, this flag march has its own genocidal theme song:
Israeli security forces deployed over 3,000 members in East Jerusalem to secure Wednesday's march, setting up military checkpoints on some of the occupied city's main roads.
The flag march is set to pass through East Jerusalem's majority Muslim neighborhoods, as Israeli forces have closed the area from the Damascus Gate to Bab al-Sahira. It will begin from the Hebron Gate and King George Street, where settlers will pass through the Damascus Gate to the Western Wall.
"The permission given by the fascist occupation government to the settler gangs to organize the so-called 'Flags March' in the streets of occupied Al-Quds [Jerusalem] ... confirms the arrogance of this fascist government and the occupation's approach aimed at Judaizing the sanctities," Hamas wrote in a statement Wednesday.
"We warn the occupation of the consequences of continuing these criminal policies against our sanctities, especially Al-Aqsa Mosque. We affirm that the resistance, which is writing heroic chapters in the Al-Aqsa Flood battle across our Palestinian land and is pursuing the occupation and its settlers in the West Bank, will find ways to cause pain to this criminal enemy, ensuring the restraint of its extremist settler leaders," the statement adds.
The resistance movement called upon the Palestinian people to mobilize and confront Israel's plans against Al-Aqsa Mosque and called upon the Arab and Muslim peoples and those who support the Palestinian cause to escalate their pressure against Israel.
Several Israeli lawmakers and ministers, including far-right National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir, have planned to attend the march.
The Islamic Christian Commission for Supporting Jerusalem and the Holy Sanctities spoke about the dangers of Israeli aggravation at Al-Aqsa grounds, calling upon Palestinians to confront the settlers storming the site.
Comment: Imagine if something similar happened outside of a synagogue?
Obviously this action is tame compared to Israel's litany of other crimes against humanity, and the actual genocide, but it again exposes the hypocrisy and amorality so prevalent at this time: