Jerusalem: Dozens of colonizers swept into Al-Aqsa Mosque on Monday in cascading groups and conducted provocative tours of its compound, according to the Palestinian News Agency (WAFA), citing the Jerusalem Governorate.

According to Qatar News Agency, the agency added that the colonizers performed Talmudic rites while under maximum security provided by the Israeli occupation police forces.

Al-Aqsa Mosque has been subjected to increasing raids by those colonizers, posing a perilous escalation and constituting a desecration of the mosque.

In another context, occupation forces closed the iron gate at the entrance to the town of Anata, east of occupied Jerusalem, impeding the movement of residents and vehicles to and from the town and triggering a traffic gridlock in the area.

The entrance constitutes the sole access point for the town's residents, as part of a policy of imposing restrictions and further tightening movement constraints on residents in occupied Jerusalem.