Settlers raid Al-Aqsa Mosque under police protection

Around 54 Israeli settlers raided Al-Aqsa Mosque under heavy police protection in occupied East Jerusalem on Tuesday morning, according to sources cited in Wafa news agency. 

Al-Aqsa is an Islamic site where unsolicited visits, prayers and rituals by non-Muslims are forbidden, according to decades-long international agreements. 

Israeli groups, in coordination with authorities, have long violated the delicate arrangement and facilitated raids of the site and performed prayers and religious rituals.