RAMALLAH, The ministry of foreign affairs and expatriates today condemned the Israeli settlers’ storming of al-Aqsa mosque through the Lions’ Gate, one of the gates leading to al-Aqsa mosque in Jerusalem, for the first time since 1967.

The ministry slammed this unprecedented step as a blatant violation of the mosque’s status quo aimed at perpetuating the temporal division of the al-Aqsa Mosque on the way to dividing it spatially.

The ministry held the Israeli government directly and fully responsible for the consequences and ramifications of its aggression against Jerusalem and its Islamic and Christian holy sites, particularly al-Aqsa mosque.

Source: Palestine News & Info Agency