Today, Monday, the guards of Al-Aqsa Mosque thwarted an attempt by settlers to bring a "live sacrifice" into its courtyards through the Al-Ghawanmeh Gate.

Local sources reported that settlers stormed Al-Aqsa Mosque through Bab al-Ghawanmeh, one of its gates, carrying a small lamb. Al-Aqsa guards pursued them and foiled their attempt to offer the lamb in Al-Aqsa on the second Passover holiday.

594 settlers stormed Al-Aqsa Mosque today, performing provocative Talmudic rituals in its courtyards, amid restrictions on worshippers.

In the same context, the Jerusalem Governorate condemned, in a statement, the attempted sacrifice inside Al-Aqsa Mosque, which it considers a dangerous development that cannot be tolerated.

The governorate warned that a group of extremist settlers attempted this morning to smuggle a small lamb into the blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque, with the intention of slaughtering it inside its courtyards, in a criminal attempt to violate the sanctity of the holiest site for Muslims after Mecca and Medina.

She reported that three settlers managed to smuggle a sheep hidden inside a cloth bag through the Ghawanmeh Gate, in an attempt to slaughter the sacrifice according to Talmudic rituals.

She stressed that this development constitutes a serious crossing of all red lines, adding, "If the slaughter had been carried out inside Al-Aqsa Mosque, no one could have predicted the repercussions of this criminal act."

The governorate held the occupation authorities fully responsible for this serious crime and called for an immediate halt to the settlers' attacks. It warned that continued collusion with these extremist groups and attempts to impose a fait accompli at Al-Aqsa Mosque could lead to dire consequences.

The governorate called on our people and the Arab and Islamic nations to take urgent and serious action to protect Al-Aqsa Mosque and thwart the occupation's plans to transform it into a Jewish synagogue as part of a plan for temporal and spatial division.

The Jerusalem Governorate saluted the vigilance of the Al-Aqsa Mosque guards, who are subjected to harassment, deportation, arrest, and assault by the occupation police and its settlers. It called for continued vigilance and attention to any new attempts by extremists against Islamic and Christian holy sites in Jerusalem.