Secretary-General of the Arab League Ahmed Aboul Gheit has strongly denounced the storming of the Al-Aqsa Mosque by Israeli extremists led by far-right minister Itamar Ben-Gvir, the Saudi Press Agency (SPA) reported on Tuesday.

Aboul Gheit said that these extremists are pushing the situation to the brink and provoking deliberately the feelings of hundreds of millions of Muslims around the world.

In a statement, he stated that the storming took place under the protection of Israeli occupation forces, who turned the Old City into a military zone and placed restrictions on the entry of worshippers. He added that Israel is fully responsible for this escalation.

He said these incursions into Al-Aqsa Mosque constitute a violation of the existing historical and legal status quo in Al-Quds and are part of a systematic policy of Israel to divide the mosque spatially and temporally.

He underscored that scoring political points by stirring religious sentiments and provoking Muslims is a dangerous and cheap strategy.