More than 200 Israeli settlers, accompanied by a rabbi, entered the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound on Monday under police protection, according to a Waqf official.
An official from the Islamic Waqf Department in Jerusalem, who asked to remain anonymous, told Anadolu Agency (AA) that "215 extremists stormed the mosque during the morning and afternoon prayers."
Video footage showed a rabbi storming the mosque in religious attire.
In a statement, the Jerusalem Governorate, an official Palestinian body, expressed its "rejection and condemnation of the storming of the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound by Israeli Rabbi Tzinov, and his performance of Talmudic prayers on the stairs leading to the Dome of the Rock."
The governorate called the incursion "a blatant violation of the sanctity of the site and a provocation of the feelings of Muslims worldwide."
