Timeline: Israel’s attacks on Al-Aqsa Mosque

09 March 2025: Israeli occupation forces storm the Qibli Prayer Hall at Al-Aqsa Mosque and seize the loudspeakers, local sources say

21 Oct 2024: 1,780 settlers defiled Al-Aqsa Mosque in different groups under police escort to mark the fifth day of the Jewish festival of Sukkot.

22 Sept 2024: The Israeli occupation regime has started to build an elevator to ease access for Jewish visitors to the Western Wall of the Noble Sanctuary of Al-Aqsa in occupied Jerusalem, raising concerns that this will make it easier for moresettlers to conduct their now frequent incursions into the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound.

27 August 2024: Israel allocates two million shekels ($545,000) to finance illegal settler incursions at Al-Aqsa Mosque in occupied East Jerusalem. Making it the first time that such incursions have been backed financially by the settler-colonial state.

13 Aug 2024: Far-right National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir, his fellow Otzma Yehudit Party minister Yitzhak Wasserlauf and Knesset member from the Likud Party Amit Halevi joined some 2,250 settlers who stormed the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound to commemorate Tisha B’Av, an annual Jewish day of fasting that marks the occurrence of several disasters in Jewish history.

11 March 2023: Israel erects barbed wire on a fence around the Lions’ Gate area adjacent to the Al-Aqsa Mosque complex in occupied East Jerusalem.

10 March 2023: Israel deploys additional heavily armed forces in the vicinity of Al-Aqsa Mosque as Palestinians marked the first evening of Ramadan and headed to the holy site for prayers.

10 March 2023: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu tasks himself with the decision regarding whether or not Israeli occupation forces will storm Al-Aqsa Mosque during the holy month of Ramadan, which begins on 11 March.

27 July 2023: 1,700 Israeli settlers join National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir to storm Al-Aqsa while preventing Muslims access to the holy site. Likud MK Amit Halevi and Negev and Galilee Development Minister Yitzhak Wasserlauf also stormed the compound. Wasserlauf was seen alongside Rabbi Shimshon Elboim, the head of a group calling itself the Temple Mount Administration

02 July 2023: Israeli occupation forces stop the Al-Aqsa Reconstruction Committee from entering the mosque courtyards to carry out maintenance works.

30 May 2023: Scores of settlers storm the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound escorted by extremist Israeli Jewish Rabbi Yehuda Glick

05 Apr 2023: Israel released most of the Palestinian worshippers detained at Al-Aqsa Mosque overnight on Tuesday, on condition that they accept a ban on entering the holy site

04 Apr 2023: More than 440 Palestinians were detained as Israeli occupation forces raided the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound and shot directly into Al-Qibli Prayer Hall injuring dozens of worshippers as the Jewish holiday of Passover began

01 Feb 2023: More than 110 settlers storm Al-Aqsa with rabbis providing lectures on the alleged Temple located on its grounds

Dec 2022: 48,000 settlers stormed Al-Aqsa in 2022, the Islamic Waqf Department says

02 Oct 2022: A female Israeli Jewish settler plays music, sings and dances in the Al Aqsa Mosque compound as 116 right-wing Israelis raided the Muslim holy site.

26 Sept 2022: 47,988 right-wing Jews raided Al-Aqsa Mosque between September 2021 and September 2022, with the right-wing Temple Mount Administration saying this has been the busiest year for Israelis storming the Muslim holy site

14 Sept 2022: Israeli Prime Minister Yair Lapid and security officials agree to allow settlers to raid Al-Aqsa Mosque during the Jewish holidays including the Jewish New year which will be marked at the end of September

07 August 2022: Hundreds of Israelis forced their way into the Al-Aqsa Mosque complex in occupied East Jerusalem escorted by right-wing rabbi Yehuda Glick

04 July 2022: Israeli occupation forces committed 73 violations against Al-Aqsa Mosque and the Ibrahimi Mosque in June, the Awqaf Ministry says

15 April 2022: More than 150 Palestinians are injured at dawn as the Israeli occupation’s police forces storm the courtyards of Al-Aqsa Mosque, damaging the Al-Qibli Mosque, including breaking its window.

07 April 2022: So-called Jewish Temple Mount groups call for organising mass stormings of Al-Aqsa Mosque during the Jewish Passover holiday in mid-April and to offer animal sacrifices in its courtyards

14 December 2021: Jewish Israelis are disguising themselves as Muslims to sneak into the Al-Aqsa Mosque complex in occupied East Jerusalem, local media has reported

01 December 2021: Scores of Israeli storm Al-Aqsa Mosque complex as part of large-scale incursions to mark the week-long Jewish festival of Hanukkah, which began on Sunday

23 November 2021: Imam of Al-Aqsa Mosque Sheikh Ekrema Sabri calls for increasing efforts to defend the holy site from settler raids and the occupation’s police saying ‘The Israeli occupation has turned the city of Jerusalem into a military base’

14 November 2021: Israel’s occupation intelligence services raid the house of Al-Aqsa Mosque guard Ahmad Abu Alia and issue him a summons to attend an interrogation centre the following day

10 November 2021: Israeli settler organisation Elad begins building a metal structure overlooking Al-Aqsa Mosque on land belonging to the Palestinian family of Somreen

04 November 2021: Israeli occupation forces storm the Dome of the Rock Mosque to stop maintenance work to the holy site’s electricity supply, hours after nearly 130 Jewish Israelis desecrated the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound

03 November 2021: 130 Israeli Jews storm the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound with many performing prayers or rituals

27 September 2021: Jewish Israelis storm Al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem and wave the Israeli flag

24 August 2021: There has been a 60% increase in the number of Israeli settler incursions into the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound over the past three months, ‘Temple Mount’ groups say

12 August 2021: Construction companies in Israel have been invited to submit tenders for the construction of the Mughrabi Gate Bridge which takes Israelis from the Al-Buraq courtyard (Wailing Wall) into Al-Aqsa Mosque compounds

09 May 2021: 100 Palestinians were injured after Israeli forces fired at worshippers at Al-Aqsa Mosque during the holy month of Ramadan

04 October 2020: Israeli occupation forces raid Bab Al-Rahma Mosque in the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound and take pictures of the inside

09 September 2020: Israeli occupation authorities install loudspeakers over the northern and western walls of the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound in occupied East Jerusalem

27 April 2020: Israeli occupation forces storm the house of Al-Aqsa Mosque preacher Sheikh Ekrima Sabri saying they will hold him accountable for any flare-ups at the Muslim holy site, after he warns settlers may be allowed to storm the site while it remains closed during the coronavirus pandemic

25 January 2020: Israel police hand Al-Aqsa Sheikh Ekrima Sabri a four month ban, stopping him from entering the holy site and holding prayers there. The Imam is also called in for interrogation

19 January 2020: Israeli occupation authorities ban Sheikh Ekrima Sabri, banning him from entering Al-Aqsa Mosque for one week

08 January 2020: Since the start of the year, Israel has been implementing a plan to isolate and suffocate Al-Aqsa Mosque and change its status including by restricting Muslim access tot he site and stopped the Jordanian Ministry of Awqaf’s work at the site

23 December 2019: 4 Palestinian women are arrested by Israeli occupation forces at Al-Aqsa Mosque as over 130 settlers storm the area after lighting the Hanukkah menorah at the Mughrabi Gate

28 November 2019: 134 settlers storm Al-Aqsa including members of the Israeli group Women for the Temple Mount

Settlers storm Al-Aqsa Mosque including members of the Israeli group Women for the Temple Mount, 28 November 2019

14 November 2019: 244 Israelis raid Al-Aqsa including 99 settlers, 97 students from religious schools, 40 government employees and eight intelligence officers

15 October 2019: Hundreds of settlers storm Al-Aqsa to mark the Jewish festival of Sukkot

09 October 2019: Thousands of settlers storm Al-Aqsa Mosque and the Ibrahimi Mosque in occupied Hebron to mark the Jewish holiday of Yom Kippur. Muslims were barred from accessing the Ibrahimi Mosque

20 September 2019: 448 settlers stormed Al-Aqsa Mosque’s courtyard between Sunday and Thursday last week Attachments area

10 September 2019: Extremist Rabbi Yehuda Glick joins 109 settlers as they storm Al-Aqsa Mosque, the Islamic Awqaf Authority in Occupied Jerusalem reports

09 September 2019: 107 Jewish settlers force their way into Al-Aqsa Mosque through Al-Mughrabi Gate. A spokesman for Jerusalem’s Islamic Awqaf Department says the aggressors include 45 settlers, 45 Jewish students, 15 government officials and two policemen

13 August 2019: Israel’s Minister of Strategic Affairs and Public Security, Gilad Erdan, calls for Tel Aviv to work towards changing the status quo at the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound

11 August 2019: Over 1,729 Jewish settlers storm Al-Aqsa Mosque on the Muslim celebration of Eid Al-Adha under the protection of Israeli occupation forces who used teargas, rubber coated bullets and truncheons to disperse Muslim worshippers, scores of Muslims were injured as a result including Palestinian Member of Israel’s Knesset Ahmad Tibi

26 July 2019: An Israeli site reports that 500 settlers stormed Al-Aqsa Mosque over the last five days

18 July 2019: Scores of Israelis stormed the courtyards of Al-Aqsa Mosque under heavy police and military protection. Eight Palestinians were arrested.

03 July 2019: Some 40 Israeli settlers, accompanied by Israel’s Agriculture Minister Uri Ariel, force their way into the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound in occupied East Jerusalem

3 June 2019: Israel’s National Infrastructures Committee (NIC) approves the plan for a controversial cable car which will run from West Jerusalem to the roof of the planned Kedem Compound, a massive, settler-run visitor centre in the heart of Palestinian neighbourhood Silwan. ‘The cable car will channel thousands of people a day over an invisible Green Line to the epicentre of Elad’s touristic settlement operations and divert unwitting tourists from the traditional Old City entry points via Jaffa and Damascus Gates, depriving Palestinian businesses from one of their main sources of income.’

13 June 2019: Israel arrests the Director of the Restoration and Reconstruction Department of the Islamic Waqf Bassam Al-Hallaq in the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound

12 June 2019: Israeli occupation forces set up a fence and begin digging around ancient staircase outside Damascus Gate in East Jerusalem

09 June 2019: 330 Israeli Jewish settlers storm Al-Aqsa Mosque as part of a continuous series of raids which began two weeks ago to mark the anniversary of the Israeli occupation of East Jerusalem during the 1967 war

09 June 2019: The Palestinian Authority says Israel is escalating a religious war by allowing settlers to desecration Al-Aqsa Mosque

02 June 2019: 1,600 settlers storm Al-Aqsa Mosque to mark 52 years since Israel’s occupation of Jerusalem

14 May 2019: Israel places restrictions on Palestinian access to Al-Aqsa during Ramadan, with men aged 30-40 needing permits to do so, and those 16-29 ineligible to apply. There are no criteria for applying for permits, only conditions for consideration

7 May 2019: Scores more settler raid Al-Aqsa Mosque on the second day of Ramadan

6 May 2019: Scores of Israeli settlers desecrate Al-Aqsa Mosque on the first day of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan as Israel Police limits Muslim access to the site

26 April 2019: Palestine News Network estimates that since the Passover holiday began on 19 April, more than 1,600 settlers have stormed Al-Aqsa compound

11 April 2019: Israeli Minister of Agriculture storms the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound along with a group of Israeli settlers under the protection of armed Israeli forces.

09 April 2019: Scores of Israelis storm Al-Aqsa Mosque as election day is marked with a national holiday in the country and at a time when Palestinians in the occupied West Bank who have work permits to enter Israel are banned from entry

08 April 2019: More than 100 Israeli occupation violations of Al-Aqsa and Ibrahimi Mosques in March, the Palestinian Ministry of Awqaf (religious endowments) says in a new report

28 March 2019: 200 settlers storm Al-Aqsa Mosque under the protection of heavily armed Israely occupation forces

19 March 2019: Israeli Temple Mount groups call for the storming of Al-Aqsa Mosque to mark the Jewish holiday of Purim on 21 March 2019

17 March 2019: 67 mainly Americans storm Al-Aqsa Mosque as occupation forces tighten their grip on the area and reduce Muslim access to the holy site

13 March 2019: Up to 200 Israelis desecrate the holy Al-Aqsa Mosque

11 March 2019: Israel’s Internal Security and Strategic Affairs Minister Gilad Erdan says Jewish prayer in Al-Aqsa Mosque compound ‘may be planned in the future’

09 March 2019: Israeli occupation forces can be seen walking around the Bab Al-Rahma Mosque refusing to take their boots off in spite of objections by Muslim worshippers

07 March 2019: Israel’s Justice Minister Ayelet Shaked signs regulations designed to enact punitive financial measures against Amnesty International under the 2011 Boycott Law, which allows for organisations supporting a boycott of Israel to be denied public funding and tax benefits

05 March 2019: There were 127 Israeli occupation attacks on AL-Aqsa and the Ibrahimi Mosques in February, according to Palestinian Endowment Minister Yousef Edees. These include banning the call to prayer from being raised, racist graffiti being sprayed on the the mosque walls and storming the areas

05 March 2019: Israel issues 133 orders banning Jerusalemites from Al-Aqsa Mosque following the reopening of Al-Rahma Gate

04 March 2019: The Federation of the Temple Mount Organisations calls for Al-Rahma Mosque to be occupied and turned into a synagogue and for Israeli sovereignty to be imposed on the entire AL-Aqsa Mosque compound

27 February 2019: Ultra-Orthodox Israeli Knesset member, Yehuda Glick, storms the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound in occupied East Jerusalem this morning through the Mughrabi Gate

26 February 2019: Israeli Minister of Agriculture, Uri Ariel, storms Al-Aqsa Mosque, with scores of settlers and protected my occupation forces

22 February 2019: Palestinians force their way in to Al-Rahma Gate area of Al-Aqsa Mosque and hold prayers there for the first time since 2003

18 February 2019: Israeli occupation forces close the doors to Al-Aqsa Mosque and harass Muslim worshippers as they try to access the site, 70 settlers storm the area at the time

18 February 2019: Israeli occupation forces close the doors to Al-Aqsa Mosque and harass Muslim worshippers as they try to access the site

09 January 2018: The Palestinian Ministry of Endowment documents 101 Israeli violations against Palestinian holy sites in the occupied Palestinian territories during December 2018

07 January 2018: Israeli Agriculture Minister Uri Ariel, accompanied by dozens of settlers, storms Al-Aqsa Mosque in occupied Jerusalem in the morning

23 December 2018: Ultra-Orthodox Israeli Knesset member, Yehuda Glick, and over a hundred Israeli settlers storm the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound. Glick says he toured the Muslim holy site to perform prayers on the anniversary of his wife’s death

10 December 2018: 127 Israelis storm Al-Aqsa in the morning with occupation forces ensuring them easy passage by having a large presence in the Muslim holy site

05 December 2018: 152 Israeli settlers toured the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound, in the Old City of occupied East Jerusalem, for the third day of Hanukkah answering calls by right-wing groups to increase visits to the Muslim holy site during the holiday

04 December 2018: 56 settlers storm Al-Aqsa Mosque in the morning

28 November 2018: 96 Israelis storm Al-Aqsa Mosque and its compound

26 November 2018: 186 Israelis storm Al-Aqsa Mosque including 40 settlers and 14 students from Torah schools

22 November 2018: Israeli occupation security forces provide protection for 54 settlers as they storm the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound

08 November 2018: Member of the Israeli Knesset for the Jewish Home party, Shuli Mualem, storms Al-Aqsa Mosque along with more than 200 Jews

06 November 2018: Jerusalem police chief Yoram Levy recommends that Israeli members of parliament increase their raids on Al-Aqsa Mosque

06 November 2018: Israeli occupation forces committed more than 30 violations and stormings against Al-Aqsa Mosque and prevented the adhan (call to prayer) at the Ibrahimi Mosque in Hebron more than 50 times in October

25 October 2018: 66 settlers and 50 Israeli students storm Al-Aqsa Mosque

23 October 2018: 129 Israelis storm Al-Aqsa Mosque. The group is made up of 57 settlers, 50 guides and 15 soldiers from the occupation’s intelligence services Shin Bet and six police officers

16 October 2018: 52 settlers and 10 of the occupation’s intelligence forces storm the Al-Aqsa compound under the protection of heavily armed Israeli soldiers

15 October 2018: Heavily armed Israeli occupation forces escorted ultra-Orthodox Israeli Knesset member, Yehuda Glick, as he stormed the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound

14 October 2018: 59 settlers storm Al-Aqsa, including 13 stewards who were guiding the group

10 October 2018: 101 settlers storm Al-Aqsa Mosque under the protection of occupation forces

02 October 2018: 168 settlers storm Al-Aqsa Mosque compound

25 September 2018: 420 settlers storm Al-Aqsa with many singing the Israeli national anthem at the Muslim holy site

18 September 2018: 326 settlers storm Al-Aqsa Mosque ahead of the Jewish holiday of Yom Kippur, three Palestinians are arrested

12 September 2018: 47 settlers and 9 Israeli intelligence officers storm the Muslim holy site of Al-Aqsa Mosque

09 September 2018: 28,800 Jewish settlers raided Al-Aqsa Mosque and its compound during the last Jewish year which ends today, according to data released by the Temple Mount and Eretz Yisrael Faithful Movement

09 September 2018: Israel’s Minister of Agriculture Uri Ariel joins 258 settlers to storm Al-Aqsa Mosque. A further 1,250 tourists are allowed to enter the Muslim holy site

05 September 2018: Controversial ultra-Orthodox Rabbi and Member of the Knesset Yehuda Glick among 117 settlers who storm Al-Aqsa Mosque

16 August 2018: 83 settlers stormed Al-Aqsa Mosque today including 13 students from the nearby Jewish institutions

14 August 2018: 80 settlers storm Al-Aqsa Mosque on a day when a Palestinian girl has been banned from entering the Muslim holy site for two weeks and a security guard has been called in for questioning after attempting to stop occupation forces from beating her

09 August 2018: 56 settlers storm Al-Aqsa Mosque, 3,800 settlers stormed the mosque in July

08 August 2018: 75 Israeli settlers and 40 Jewish students stormed Al-Aqsa Mosque with occupation forces readying for their arrival from 7am local time

08 August 2018: Israeli occupation forces ban Muslims from entering the Ibrahimi Mosque for a period of 24 hours starting 10pm ahead of a Jewish holiday

01 August 2018: 113 Israeli settlers and five intelligence officers, escorted by policemen, broke into Al-Aqsa Mosque this morning

26 July 2018: 30 settlers storm Al-Aqsa and partake in a guided tour which outlines claims it was the site of two Jewish temples in ancient times

22 July 2018: Thousands of settlers storm Al-Aqsa, including right-wing Member of the Knesset Yehuda Glick, to mark the Jewish holiday of Tisha B’Av which commemorates the destruction of the First and Second Temple

21 July 2018: Jordan sends a note to the Israeli government to protest the repeated storming of Al-Aqsa Mosque by settlers

23 July 2018: Palestinians are to investigate reports that the Al-Buraq Wall is crumbling after video footage appeared of a stone falling from it

12 July 2018: 170 settlers stormed Al-Aqsa under the protection of Israeli occupation forces during a four hour period this morning

09 July 2018: 3 Israeli Knesset members storm Al-Aqsa including two from the ruling Likud party and one from the Jewish Home

08 July 2018: The first member of the Knesset storms Al-Aqsa taking advantage of recently relaxed laws to allow lawmakers into the Muslim holy site

03 July 2018: Israel’s Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, grants members of the Israeli Knesset (MKs) permission to visit Jerusalem’s Al-Haram Al-Sharif compound dismantles a previous agreement between Israel and Jordan put in place since 2015

04 July 2018: 135 settlers and occupation security forces storm Al-Aqsa Mosque in the early hours with more expected to arrive later in the day

04 July 2018: Dozens of settlers storm Al-Aqsa Mosque in the early hours with more expected to arrive later in the day

18 June 2018: Israeli occupation police set up a new watchtower at the Bab Al-Rahma entrance to Al-Aqsa Mosque. Attachments area

07 June 2018: Israeli occupation police arrest 2 Palestinian worshippers from the courtyards of Al-Aqsa Mosque as nearly 90 settlers stormed the Muslim holy site

05 June 2018: Israeli occupation forces arrest 12 Muslim worshippers as they read Quran in Al-Aqsa Mosque’s courtyards, while some 53 Jewish settlers forced their way on to the site in the morning

03 June 2018: Increasing number of settler attacks on Muslim sites in occupied Jerusalem and the West Bank in May according to the Minister of Awqaf and Religious Affairs Yousef Edais

30 May 2018: 68 settlers storm Al-Aqsa Mosque flanked by security forces

29 May 2018: Israeli occupation courts ban 5 Jerusalemites from entering Al-Aqsa for one week after they allegedly participated in protests in the area

17 May 2018: 62 settlers storm Al-Aqsa Mosque on the first day of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan

16 May 2018: Scores of settlers storm Al-Aqsa Mosque days after the US opens its embassy in Jerusalem

10 May 2018: 44 settlers storm Al-Aqsa Mosque

09 May 2018: Occupation officials from the Israel Nature and Parks Authority storm the Islamic cemetery of Bab Al-Rahma, adjacent to the eastern wall of Al-Aqsa Mosque in occupied East Jerusalem, damaging graves

08 May 2018: The Israeli government is planning to spend $16.6 million on excavation projects under Al-Aqsa Mosque, amid calls for illegal Jewish settlers to storm the Muslim holy site

07 May 2018: 153 settlers storm Al-Aqsa Mosque, 32-year-old Mahdi Ameen Al-Abbasi who works as a guard at the Muslim holy site was also called in for questioning by Israeli occupation forces

01 May 2018: 43 settlers storm Al-Aqsa Mosque this morning while a Palestinian child is banned from entry for having a Palestinian ‘phrase’ on his schoolbag

30 April 2018: 97 settlers stormed the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound this morning

18 April 2018: Israel bans two Al-Aqsa Mosque guards from accessing the site for one week, no reason is given as to why

18 April 2018: Israeli occupation forces arrest a guard at Al-Aqsa Mosque and summoned others in for questioning.

18 April 2018: Al-Aqsa Mosque guard Arafat Najeeb is arrested and four others are summoned for questioning in the early hours of the morning

16 April 2018: An Israeli court rules that Jewish visitors storming Al-Aqsa Mosque can chant patriotic slogans as they do not count as religious prayers

10 April 2018: 53 settlers storm Al-Aqsa Mosque under heavy police and army protection

4 April 2018: Israeli settler groups have called on their supporters to take part in an assault on Al-Aqsa Mosque during Passover

3 April 2018: 381 Israeli settlers raided Al-Aqsa Mosque under the heavy protection of the Israeli military police

25 March 2018: 92 settlers storm Al-Aqsa Mosque under a heavy Israeli security presence

25 March 2018: The Israeli Magistrate Court in Jerusalem rules that Jewish settlers can perform prayers at the gates of Al-Aqsa Mosque as this is ‘the best proof of the Israeli control of the area

22 March 2018: The Jewish Temple Institute announces that it will hold a festival in the Islamic Umayyad palaces area to mark Passover on 26 March to the south and southwest of Al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem

Situation of Arabs regarding Jerusalem – Cartoon [Al Araby Al Jadeed]

20 March 2018: 12,135 settlers stormed the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound between September and March according to Jewish organisations, an increase of 47 per cent compared to the same period last year. The monthly record was also broken in the time between July-August, where some 4,369 settlers entered the Muslim holy site; this coincided with the decision of Israeli authorities to restrict entree for Muslim worshippers.

04 March 2018: There were 96 Israeli violations against Al-Aqsa and Al-Ibrahimi Mosques in February, the Palestinian Ministry of Waqf reveals

14 January 2018: 105 settlers storm Al-Aqsa between the hours of 07:00 and 10:30 (05:00-08:30 GMT)

11 January 2018: 79 settlers storm Al-Aqsa Mosque in the morning

08 February 2018: 44 settlers and 33 US soldiers storm Al-Aqsa Mosque under Israeli military protection

08 January 2018: 34 settlers storm Al-Aqsa Mosque yards

28 December 2017: 112 settlers storm Al-Aqsa Mosque in the morning before 10:30am

27 December 2017: 61 settlers storm Al-Aqsa Mosque courtyard in the morning

20 December 2017: Israeli occupation forces arrest the head of Al-Aqsa Mosque’s construction department Bassam Al-Hallaq along with another employee

19 December 2017: Extremist Israeli Jewish Rabbi Yehuda Glick performs Talmudic rituals in front of Al-Aqsa Mosque after storming the courtyards along with a number of settlers under a heavy police presence

17 December 2017: 91 settlers storm Al-Aqsa Mosque from the Mughrabi Gate

14 December 2017: More than 200 settlers storm Al-Aqsa Mosque on the first day of the Jewish holiday of Hannukah. Waqf authorities believe there will be a spike in the number of settler incursions during the holiday, fearing increased tensions with Muslim worshippers

13 December 2017: 101 settlers storm the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound in two batches

10 December 2017: Israeli occupation police ban the Deputy Leader of the Islamic Movement in Israel, Sheikh Kamal Al-Khatib, and senior Arab officials from entering Al-Aqsa Mosque

10 December 2017: Israeli occupation forces carried out more than 95 violations against Al-Aqsa Mosque in occupied East Jerusalem and the Ibrahimi Mosque in the occupied West Bank city of Hebron in November, the Palestinian Minister of Waqf and Religious Affairs Sheikh Yousif Ideis reveals

7 December 2017: Israel Police provide armed cover for 32 settlers as they storm Al-Aqsa Mosque

5 December 2017: 117 settlers storm the Islamic holy site in the morning under complete security protection

4 December 2017: 56 settlers and Israeli occupation forces raid Al-Aqsa Mosque in the morning

04 December 2017: 4 Al-Aqsa Mosque guards were arrested by Israeli occupation forces. They were identified as Ahmed Abu Alia, Fadi Abu Mizar, Qassem Kamal and Louay Abu Saad.

20 November 2017: 56 settlers stormed Al-Aqsa Mosque this morning

15 November 2017: 147 settlers stormed Al-Aqsa Mosque this morning. Maghrabi Gate was closed at 10:30am after the settlers had been given access to the Muslim holy site

08 November 2017: 95 settlers stormed Al-Aqsa and performed prayers in its courtyards

7 November 2017: 67 settlers storm Al-Aqsa Mosque this morning

18 July 2015: On the first day of the holy month of Ramadan, settler gangs stormed Al-Aqsa Mosque from Al-Mughrabi Gate, protected by the security forces.

8 June 2015: Groups of students from Israeli institutions and universities, as well as Jewish settlers, stormed Al-Aqsa Mosque. The extremist Jewish youth movement Im Tirtzu announced its organisation of large-scale incursions of Al-Aqsa in cooperation with the Students for the Temple Mount group.

12 May 2015: Groups from the Israeli intelligence agencies and settler gangs stormed Al-Aqsa from Al-Mughrabi Gate supported by the security forces.

3 May 2015: Members of the Jewish extremist group Students for the Temple Mount stormed Al-Aqsa through Al-Mughrabi Gate, guarded by the Israeli security forces.

9 April 2015: The Israeli police attacked and beat worshippers in Al-Aqsa Mosque after they confronted Jewish gangs attempting to storm the mosque. Hundreds of Palestinians from Jerusalem and the occupied Palestinian territories gathered to prevent any Jewish Passover events and celebrations in Al-Aqsa.

22 March 2015: More than 120 settlers stormed Al-Aqsa from Al-Mughrabi Gate in small groups, protected by heavily-armed security forces.

24 February 2015: Al-Aqsa was subjected to systematic incursions by groups from the Students for the Temple Mount group through Al-Mughrabi Gate, guarded by the Israeli police.

17 February 2015: The Israeli police arrested a woman from Jerusalem as she left Al-Aqsa Mosque through Al-Nather Gate.

13 January 2015: The Israeli police confiscated the identity documents of male and female worshippers as they entered the mosque, only returning them when they left.

5 January 2015: Groups of Jewish settlers stormed Al-Aqsa Mosque and carried out inflammatory tours around the mosque, amid the cries and chants of worshippers and students.

1 January 2015: Extremist Jewish groups stormed Al-Aqsa through Al-Mughrabi Gate, guarded by the Israeli police.

16 March 2014: Israeli security forces stormed Al-Aqsa through Al-Silsila Gate. They besieged the worshippers and attacked protestors with sound bombs and rubber bullets. The same happened on 16 April of this year, as the occupation forces stormed Al-Aqsa’s courtyards, firing sound bombs, smoke bombs and tear gas canisters at worshippers, resulting in the injury of 25 Muslims.

28 January 2014: Al-Aqsa guards thwarted an attempt by settlers to take Israeli flags into Al-Aqsa.

April 2013: Israeli occupation forces prohibited a group of female Muslim students from entering Al-Aqsa to attend classes early in the month.

27 September 2012: The Israeli police force stationed in Al-Aqsa arrested a male student and removed 6 others in order to allow a group of Jews to walk around the mosque.

8 January 2012: A group of Israeli occupation soldiers, along with a member of the intelligence agency, stormed Al-Aqsa in their uniforms and roamed around inside with an intensive security presence.

18 September 2011: Small groups of extremist Jews stormed Al-Aqsa and roamed around the mosque accompanied by Israeli police and a heavy military presence.

20 August 2011: Israeli occupation forces attacked a group of worshippers who gathered at the gates of the Old City after being prohibited from entering Al-Aqsa.

20 December 2010: A settler was arrested after attempting to storm Al-Aqsa with explosives which he planned to place in Al-Qibli Mosque.

21 July 2010: Likud MK, Danny Danon (now Israel’s ambassador at the UN), stormed Al-Aqsa along with a number of fellow parliamentarians.

25 May 2010: Israeli police allowed a Haredi rabbi to perform complete Jewish religious rituals in Al-Aqsa for the first time and to prostrate before the Dome of the Rock during the day.

3 April 2010: The occupation authorities announced plans to build a large Pride of Israel Synagogue just 200 metres from Al-Aqsa Mosque.

15 March 2010: Hurva Synagogue near Al-Aqsa Mosque was opened.

12 October 2008: Israel opened a synagogue on Islamic Waqf (religious endowment) land, 50 metres from Al-Aqsa.

8 February 2006: Israel’s Ministry of Education and the Jewish Agency for Israel distributed thousands of copies of maps of the Old City in Jerusalem with a picture of the “Temple” in place of the Dome of the Rock.

4 April 2005: The Israeli police announced the details of a plan for the installation of motion detectors and cameras around Al-Aqsa Mosque.

1 April 2005: Israeli President Moshe Katsav requested that Jews be allowed to enter Al-Aqsa, just as they go into the Ibrahimi Mosque in Hebron.

9 September 2004: Menachem Froman, chief rabbi of the Tekoa settlement, held his daughter’s wedding in Al-Aqsa Mosque in a celebration involving the consumption of alcohol.

31 January 2003: An Israeli company placed labels with a picture of Al-Aqsa Mosque on its vodka bottles.

7 July 2001: Israeli authorities prevented the entry of construction and restoration materials into Al-Aqsa.

8 May 2001: Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon formed a ministerial committee to prepare a mechanism allowing Jews and foreign tourists to enter Al-Aqsa Mosque.

18 April 2001: A Jewish museum was built near Al-Aqsa.

2 March 2001: Members of the Temple Mount Faithful movement filed an appeal to the Israeli Supreme Court demanding that the Islamic Waqf stop restoration work in Al-Aqsa Mosque.

29 September 2000: Israeli security forces committed a new massacre against worshippers in Al-Aqsa Mosque, killing and wounding dozens.

28 September 2000: Ariel Sharon stormed Al-Aqsa Mosque accompanied by a heavy security presence. This sparked the Aqsa Intifada.

11 January 2000: The Israeli Supreme Court decided that politicians are responsible for deciding issues regarding Al-Aqsa Mosque.

31 August 1997: Israeli plans to demolish Umayyad palaces near Al-Aqsa Mosque and expand the Buraq (“Wailing”) Wall were revealed.

11 March 1997: A judicial advisor to the Israeli government allowed Jews to pray in Al-Aqsa Mosque after coordinating with the Israeli police.

26 January 1984: Two Jews entered Al-Aqsa Mosque in possession of large amounts of explosives and hand grenades with the intention of bombing the Dome of the Rock Mosque.

20 January 1983: An extremist group was formed in Israel and America whose mission is to rebuild the Temple in place of Al-Aqsa Mosque and the Dome of the Rock.

25 July 1982: Yoel Lerner, an activist affiliated with the illegal, terrorist Kach Movement, was arrested after planning to bomb the Dome of the Rock.

11 April 1982: Israeli soldier Harry Goldman opened fire in Al-Aqsa courtyard, killing two Palestinians and wounding more than 60 others.

24 February 1982: Gershon Salomon, founder and leader of the Temple Mount Faithful, stormed Al-Aqsa Mosque.

28 August 1981: A tunnel was discovered under the Noble Sanctuary of Al-Aqsa, starting from the Buraq Wall.

13 January 1981: Members of the Temple Mount Faithful, along with other groups, stormed Al-Aqsa Mosque and raised Israeli flags and Torah scrolls.

28 January 1976: The Israeli Central Court ruled that Jews have the right to pray inside Al-Aqsa Mosque.

2 November 1969: Yigal Allon, acting Prime Minister of Israel, and his assistant stormed Al-Aqsa Mosque.

21 August 1969: An Australian tourist, Denis Michael Rohan, set fire to Al-Aqsa Mosque, destroying priceless artefacts.

1968: Israel issued a resolution to confiscate Palestinian land and property in occupied Jerusalem, claiming that they are “state land” despite the presence of the original owners. The resolution caused the confiscation of 3,345 dunams (825 acres).

15 June 1967: The head of the Military Rabbinate in the Israeli army, Shlomo Goren, and 50 of his followers performed religious rituals in Al-Aqsa courtyard.

7 June 1967: General Mordechai Gur and his soldiers entered Al-Aqsa Mosque on the third day of the 1967 War and raised the Israeli flag from the Dome of the Rock. They also burned copies of the Qur’an, prohibited worshippers from praying in the mosque and confiscated the keys.

What About Hamas? What About Israeli Expansionism?

What About Israel Stealing Palestinian Land since NAKBA 1948?

Hamas was formed in the eighties as a direct result of Israel military expansionism by force.

Since the formation of the State of Israel in 1948, Israelis have vastly expanded the size and borders of the State of Israel.

How do you think Israelis did it?

They did it by inciting conflict, inciting war, believing and knowing that Israel's superior military force would easily crush effectively defenseless Palestinian resistance forces.

Israelis always wanted more war with Palestinians because IDF forces would capture more Palestinian land each time Israel launched an IDF military operation.

So how did Israelis incite war with Palestinians?

By "SWATTING THE HORNET'S NEST."

What the hell is "Swatting the Hornet's Nest?"

"Swatting the Hornet's Nest" is an old Israeli technique used by virtually every Israeli Prime Minister, including Ariel Sharon, to incite war with Palestinians - Hamas in particular.

"Swatting the Hornet's Nest" is when an Israeli PM orders Israeli police (and allows settlers) to go to the al Aqsa mosque to beat, hogtie and arrest worshippers during prayer service.

Hamas specifically stated in their Operation al Aqsa Flood material that this operation was retribution for Israel's mosque raids, beatings and arrests AND for the IDF kidnapping thousands of Palestinians and holding them hostage.

This is not an exaggeration, but a well-known fact and is on video:

VIDEO: Israeli police beat and arrest worshippers during Ramadan on September 17, 2023;

21 DAYS PRIOR TO OCTOBER 7, 2023 ATTACK.