Dozens of extremist settlers broke into the blessed Al-Masjid Al-Aqsa on Thursday morning from Al-Magharbeh gate with heavy protection from the occupation's police.

According to the Islamic Waqf circle in occupied Jerusalem, 112 settlers, including 3 Jewish students, broke into the Al-Aqsa Mosque, conducted provocative tours in its yards and performed Talmudic rituals on its eastern side.

Two staff members of the so-called "antiquities authority" had broken into Al-Aqsa yards.

The occupation police restricted the access of Palestinian worshippers to Al-Aqsa, detained some identities at its outer gates, and arrested activist Mohamed Abu Al-Humus from the mosque yards.

On Wednesday evening, the Israeli court in occupied Jerusalem decided to allow Jews to perform "limited prayers" in the yards of the Al-Aqsa Mosque, describing the prayer of the Jews in Al-Aqsa "a legitimate act that cannot be criminalized" as long as those "prayers are silent."

During the Jewish holidays, Al-Aqsa Mosque witnessed an unprecedented increase in the numbers of intruding settlers and wholesale violations of the sanctity of the mosque, amidst heavy protests against worshippers and their denial of prayer in the courtyards as the intruders passed.