Israeli forces arrest 2 women, mosque employee at Jerusalem’s Al-Aqsa
Israeli forces arrested two women and an employee Sunday from inside the courtyards of the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound in occupied Jerusalem, in the latest violations against worshippers and mosque staff.
The Palestinian news agency Wafa, citing local sources, reported that Israeli forces stopped the two women while they were inside the Al-Aqsa compound, arrested them, and took them to “an undisclosed location.”
Israeli forces also arrested Raed Zaghir, head of the cleaning department at Al-Aqsa Mosque, while he was inside the site, the Jerusalem Governorate said in a brief statement.
The arrests came amid escalating raids and violations at Al-Aqsa, alongside tighter restrictions on worshippers and repeated assaults and detentions targeting Palestinians at the holy site.
Hours earlier, far-right Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir raided the flashpoint site under heavy police protection.