On Monday, Hamas warned the Israeli occupation of continuing to allow its settlers to “storm Al-Aqsa Mosque” in the occupied city of Jerusalem.

This came in a statement by the movement’s spokesman in Jerusalem, Muhammad Hamadeh, a copy of which was received by Anadolu Agency.

The statement said: “This criminal (Israeli) enemy will not reap anything but loss and regret from his foolishness. Our people and our people will not leave Jerusalem and Al-Aqsa Mosque alone.”

Hamada also warned Israel against its continued “attempts to impose the temporal and spatial division of Al-Aqsa Mosque.”

He continued, “The flames of response and resistance from all of Palestine authorize the explosion in his (the enemy’s) face.”

Earlier, the Islamic Endowments Department in Jerusalem, in a brief statement that reached Anatolia, said that 626 settlers stormed Al-Aqsa Mosque during the morning period.

It is expected that more settlers will storm the mosque in the period after the noon prayer.

The pace of incursions has witnessed a noticeable increase since the beginning of the Jewish “Sukrim Feast” last week, which ends in two days.

The Department of Islamic Endowments reported that more than a thousand settlers stormed the mosque during the last days, on the occasion of the Throne Day.

In turn, the Ministry of Jerusalem Affairs warned, in a statement on Monday, that “the Israeli incursions into Al-Aqsa Mosque took a dangerous turn, with the large number of intruders, accompanied by frantic attempts to perform special religious rituals during the Jewish holidays.”​

The incursions take place in two shifts, in the morning and after noon prayers, through the Mughrabi Gate in the western wall of the mosque, with facilities and escorts from the Israeli police.

The Israeli police began to allow the incursions in 2003, despite repeated condemnation by the Islamic Endowment Department in Jerusalem.