Arabs claimed over 135,000 worshippers.Around 75,000 worshipers prayed at the Al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem for the first Friday of the holy month of Ramadan, Israeli police said.
Israeli police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld said around 75,000 prayed at the mosque, the third holiest site in Islam, and that so far there had been no incidents.
Tens of thousands of Muslims have come every day of Ramadan so far.
So what is the Arab media reporting today?
Dozens of settlers in consecutive groups came to the the Al-Aqsa Mosque on Sunday from the Mughrabi Gate with special occupation police units amid anger and tension prevailing among worshipers and employees.
Our correspondent in Jerusalem said that the break-ins today saw an increase in the number of settler intruders who exploit the early morning hours.
A number of [Muslim] worshipers and students tried to disrupt the settlers with chants and tried to intercept the tours but the Israeli police imposed a cordon on the settlers to protect them during their tours in the al-Aqsa mosque.
Note how even the Arab media admits that the Jews need police protection from the Muslims on the Mount. The converse, of course, is not true.
I am reminded of Esther 5:13, after Haman recounted to his wife the many honors that the king was giving him.
"Yet all this is meaningless to me, so long as I see Mordechai the Jew sitting at the king's gate."
Antisemites throughout history haven't changed. Their hate is so psychotic that the very sight of a single Jew enrages them so much as to want to destroy the entire nation.