200 Israeli settlers forced their way into the al-Aqsa Mosque compound yesterday morning under police escort while Israeli forces restricted Muslim worshippers’ entry to the site.
Local sources put the number entering through the Maghariba Gate in the morning at no fewer than 143.
Rabbis addressed groups of them on the claimed Temple Mount, and several performed Talmudic prayers in the eastern section and on the staircase to the plateau of the Dome of the Rock, in breach of the arrangement barring non-Muslim prayer there.
Police meanwhile imposed movement and entry restrictions at the Mosque’s gates and turned back large numbers of Palestinians.
Meanwhile, Israeli bulldozers demolished Palestinian commercial structures at the entrance to Anza, south of Jenin. Residents said two bulldozers escorted by troops began tearing down 12 warehouses despite an unresolved legal challenge by the owners.
Soldiers cordoned off the area, blocked access and closed the main Nablus-Jenin road to Palestinian traffic.
Hisham Sadeq, head of the Anza village council, said the warehouses held equipment and stock belonging to a village cardboard factory, and that the owners were refused permission to remove anything before demolition began.
In Gaza, the health ministry said yesterday that the number killed since the start of the Israeli genocidal war on 7 October 2023 has risen to 73,387, with 174,257 wounded.
Hospitals received one body and one wounded person over the previous 24 hours. Since the ceasefire took effect on 10 October 2025, at least 1,259 Palestinians have been killed and 4,146 wounded.
The deliberate deprivation of food continues alongside the killing, and so does the effort to argue it away. The Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor said that Israel is distorting the record to escape responsibility for starving Gaza’s civilians, selectively using UNICEF Nutrition Cluster data from 2026 to discredit the famine indicators identified by the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification in 2025.
The monitor accused Israel of reading UNICEF selectively in both directions, ignoring its documentation of 265 Palestinian children killed since the ceasefire was announced, one a day on average, by bombing, gunfire and drone attacks, including inside homes and schools.
