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Palestinian Foreign Ministry Condemns Storming of Al-Aqsa Mosque by Thousands of Settlers

Publication date: July 23, 2026 15:29 KSA

The Palestinian Foreign Ministry strongly condemned the largest colonial incursion in months, carried out today by more than 3,228 settlers into the courtyards of Al-Aqsa Mosque, under heavy protection from the Israeli occupation forces, in violation of the existing historical and legal status.

The Palestinian Foreign Ministry stressed that Al-Aqsa Mosque, in its entirety, is a pure place of worship for Muslims, and that Israel has no sovereignty over the occupied Palestinian land, especially the city of Jerusalem, and that all procedures, measures, and practices are null and void, creating no legal or historical right, and that all of them violate international law and United Nations resolutions, especially Security Council resolutions 476 and 478. It called on the international community to take practical and binding steps to stop these violations, ensure respect for the existing historical and legal status at Al-Aqsa Mosque and holy sites, prevent the imposition of any restrictions on the access of worshippers to their places of worship in the holy city, or the imposition of any new colonial facts by force, and enforce respect for the existing legal and historical status.