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JerusalemAl-Aqsa Mosque compound

Settlers enter Al-Aqsa compound under police protection and pray

Such visits have grown in size and openness, with Jewish prayer now tolerated on the eastern side of the site. Palestinians and Jordan regard it as a breach of the status quo.

Sunday 25 October 2026Al-Aqsa Mosque compound, East Jerusalem2 layers · 1 min deep

The covered Mughrabi Bridge leading up to the Mughrabi Gate of the compound
Jerusalem: the Mughrabi Bridge to the Mughrabi Gate of Al-Aqsa, August 2025. Photo: Bukvoed, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

Dozens of Israeli settlers entered the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound through the Moroccan Gate on Sunday under Israeli police protection and performed prayers, WAFA reported.

Local sources told WAFA the group entered through the Moroccan (Mughrabi) Gate and performed what the agency called Talmudic rituals and prayers.

Jerusalem Governorate figures cited by WAFA show 40,661 settlers entered the compound between January and the end of August 2026.

During Sukkot, Palestinian estimates put entries at more than 9,000, The New Arab reported.

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40,661

settler entries to the compound, January to August 2026

Source: WAFA

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incursions recorded at Al-Aqsa in September, per the Awqaf ministry

Source: WAFA

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the settlers have more authority inside Al-Aqsa than the guards do.
Al-Aqsa worker, unnamed · The New Arab

Sources

  1. WAFA, 25 Oct 2026
  2. The New Arab, 5 Oct 2026

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