On Thursday morning, settlers stormed Al-Aqsa Mosque, in successive groups, amid calls to intensify the storming on the occasion of the so-called "Jerusalem Day" and the "flag march".

The Islamic Endowments Department in Jerusalem said: "1,262 settlers stormed Al-Aqsa Mosque in the morning and evening periods."

Dozens of settlers gathered this afternoon, at Damascus Gate, and performed provocative dances, in preparation for the settlement "flag march", which is scheduled to arrive at the place this afternoon.

And the Minister of Transportation of the occupation government, Miri Regev, participated in the gathering of settlers at Damascus Gate, who raised the flag of the occupying state.

Previously, large forces of the occupation police stormed the courtyards of the mosque to secure the settlers' incursions, as some members of those forces were seen removing some stationed from inside.

A group of stationed men and women gathered inside Al-Aqsa, where they shouted takbeers, amid attempts to confuse the settlers’ incursions.

Participated in the raid, the minister of the so-called Negev and the extremist Galilee, Isaac Vserlov of the "Jewish Power" party led by Itamar Ben Gvir, whose wife stormed the mosque, along with former Knesset member, Rabbi Yehuda Glick, and the head of the Ben Gvir faction in the Knesset, Yitzhak Crozier, and the wife of Itamar Ben Gvir.

The occupation forces deployed heavily inside the Old City since the early hours of dawn, in preparation for securing the settlers' incursions, and strengthened their deployment in preparation for the scheduled march this afternoon.

It also forced the owners of shops in the valley in the Old City of occupied Jerusalem to close them, at gunpoint, under the pretext of securing the settlement "flag march".

In recent days, various factions, forces, and activists have issued calls to gather in Al-Aqsa and Rabat within it, coinciding with calls for settlers to participate strongly in the incursions.