„The Israeli police allowed Feiglin to storm the mosque‘s courtyards under their protection,“ Sheikh Azzam al-Khatib, head of the Jordan-run Organization for Muslim Endowments and Al-Aqsa Affairs, told Anadolu Agency on phone from the holy site.

The intrusion came amid clashes between young Muslim worshippers and Israeli police who stormed the holy site in the early hours of the morning and tried to forcibly evict the Palestinian worshippers, eyewitnesses said.