»A silent world as Palestinians defend Al-Aqsa-IMEMC News

After the peaceful demonstration, Israeli forces opened the doors of Al-Aqsa, closed for four hours. Hundreds of Palestinians returned to the compound singing and singing. This development was considered a victory for the Palestinian popular movement. This reminded the people of last year, when peaceful Palestinian demonstrations forced the Israeli authorities to remove metal detectors around al-Aqsa.

The Palestinian Ministry of Foreign Affairs issued a statement condemning the Israeli raid on the mosque on Friday. The community's contempt for the incident:

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates condemns in the strongest terms the heinous crime committed by the occupation forces and its police at al-Aqsa mosque today … This aggression is inscribed within the framework of the escalation of the occupation and its settlers … [in terms of their efforts] institute a special division and temporal [of al-Aqsa]. The silence of the international community regarding the violations of the occupation against Jerusalem and its holy and Islamic sites, in particular the Aqsa Mosque, has reached the point of complicity. It expresses serious contempt on the part of the international community for the suffering of Palestinian society.

The Jordanian Islamic Waqf is responsible for maintaining the "status quo" of Al-Aqsa, an agreement reached between Israel and Jordan following the 1967 Israeli occupation of Jerusalem. It states that al-Aqsa is reserved for Muslim worship, although persons of other religions may visit the sacred site. Palestinians and Waqf officials have long warned that Israeli incursions and police incursions are a step towards unilateral change in the political status quo of al-Aqsa and occupied Jerusalem Ahmad Jaradat is Senior Coordinator of the Alternative Information Center.