Ramallah: Before the end of Ramadan, Israel has outlawed non-Muslim visitors to the volatile Al-Aqsa Mosque compound in Jerusalem.

Approximately 800 settlers were allowed to pray in the compound on Tuesday morning, the sixth day of Passover, in violation of a long-standing agreement that forbids such activity during the final 10 days of the Muslim holy month. This sparked outrage, and Israeli security forces were forced to take action.

It is still unknown whether Israel's radical settler movement, which is becoming more powerful, will adhere to the Al-Aqsa policy. One of their leaders, the notoriously religious bigot and far-right police minister Itamar Ben-Gvir,

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who has a criminal record for supporting terrorism and inciting racism, condemned the ban. "When terrorism attacks us, we must respond with great force and refuse to capitulate to its whims,"

Former Jerusalem and Palestine grand mufti and current preacher at Al-Aqsa Sheikh Ekrima Said Sabri stated to Arab News: "Israel wants to prove that they are the ones who decide what can and cannot happen at Al-Aqsa. We see this as an extreme violation and provocation."

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Israeli aggression towards the occupied West Bank continued on Tuesday, meanwhile. East of Nablus, in the village of Deir Al-Hatab, during an ambush close to the Elon Moreh settlement, the army ambushed two Palestinians and injured a third.

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The two fatalities, identified as Saud Al-Titi and Mohammed Abu Dira by Palestinian sources, were former prisoners and members of the Al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades, the military wing of President Mahmoud Abbas' Fatah party.