Saudi Arabia has condemned the raid of a group of Israeli settlers on the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound in Jerusalem and their performing of Talmudic rituals there, Al Jazeera reports.
It described the raid as an attack on the sanctity of Al-Aqsa Mosque and said it categorically rejects any moves that would affect the historical and legal status of the holy site.
The compound in Jerusalem’s walled Old City houses Islam’s third-holiest shrine, Al-Aqsa Mosque, and is also revered in Judaism as the Temple Mount, a vestige of two ancient temples.
According to Al Jazeera, under a delicate decades-old “status quo” arrangement with Muslim authorities, Israel allows Jews to visit but refrain from prayer.
