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On Friday morning, settlers broke into the Bab al-Rahma cemetery adjacent to the eastern wall of the blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque.
The Jerusalem Governorate reported that the settlers performed Talmudic rituals early Friday morning on the occasion of the seventh and last day of the so-called 'Jewish Feast of Tabernacles', carrying what is called the 'Four Species' of plants, in front of Bab al-Rahma from the outside of the eastern wall of the blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque, adjacent to Muslim graves.
It added that these rituals come in the context of a recurring behavior witnessed in the area recently, as part of a path through which Jewish groups seek to establish the area adjacent to Bab al-Rahma as a point for Jewish prayer and religious rituals, by organizing frequent gatherings and prayers at the site, and promoting religious and historical narratives that claim the importance and status of the place among Jews, and some of these narratives go so far as to present the site as having a significance that surpasses the status of the Western Wall, according to what those groups promote.
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