Jerusalem police chief Yoram Levy has recommended that Israeli members of parliament increase their raids on Al-Aqsa Mosque, Channel 7 reported yesterday.
According to Qods News Agency (Qodsna) Levy said that there had been no incidents in the holy site or intelligence gathered to indicate there would be negative repercussions for the incursions.
As a result, he added, members of the Knesset should be allowed storm Al-Aqsa Mosque unconditionally.
The recommendation now needs the approval of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, the TV station said, however, this would not be immediate as he would seek to avoid confrontations with Jordan which administers the mosque compound.
Earlier this year Netanyahu lifted a three-year ban on MKs entering the Muslim holy site with Minister of Agriculture Uri Ariel becoming the first Israeli official to storm the compound since 2015.
Israeli officials have banned a high-ranking Palestinian Muslim cleric from entering al-Aqsa Mosque in occupied East Jerusalem al-Quds amid an escalation of acts of violence by Israeli forces and settlers against Palestinian people.
Israel’s attorney general has officially submitted his indictment of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to the Knesset (parliament), laying out a sweeping case in which an estimated 333 witnesses, including wealthy friends and former aides, could be called to testify.
At a meeting this morning on the occasion of the burning of the Al-Aqsa Mosque and World Mosques Day, Khaled al-Qadoumi, a Hamas representative in Tehran, Hojatoleslam and Muslim, Hojjatullah Zakar, deputy head of the mosque's affairs and political affairs center, Hussein Rivari, Defending the Palestinian people examined the status and importance of the Al-Aqsa Mosque in the Qur'an and its priority for the Islamic Ummah and the conspiracy scenarios against this sacred site.
A funeral prayer in absentia was held at the Al-Aqsa Mosque for Egypt's first democratically elected President Mohammed Morsi, who died Monday during trial.
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