Al-Aqsa is stormed by Israeli police and settlers, forcing Muslim worshippers to leave the area.

Israeli settlers broke into the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound in occupied Jerusalem on sunday, shortly after police raided the holy site and forced Muslim worshippers who were staying there for worship out. The Jordan-run Islamic Waqf authority, in charge of the holy site, said scores of Israeli settlers entered the compound through the Moroccan Gate in groups and performed rituals there under the protection of Israeli police officers. Israeli forces were deployed in the compound and at its gates to secure the settlers' incursions, amid growing restrictions on worshipers entering the mosque. This was the latest episode in an ongoing wave of settler terrorism targeting the Palestinian communities in the occupied Jerusalem and the West Bank. On Saturday night, Israeli settlers set a Palestinian-owned house on fire in Sinjil, to the north of Ramallah in the central West Bank, and pelted stones at Palestinian vehicles near the village of Deir Sharaf, to the west of Nablus, and blocked a junction in the northern Jordan Valley.

Israeli settler violence against Palestinians and their property is commonplace in the West Bank and is rarely prosecuted by Israeli authorities. There are over 650,000 Israeli settlers illegally occupying portions of the West Bank in violation of international law and established norms prohibiting the relocation of the occupying power's civil population to the land of the occupied. The parties urged "all sides to refrain from unilateral steps that escalate tensions and refrain from provocative actions and messages at this sensitive time" due to the convergence of religious holidays Ramadan, Passover and Easter.