While thousands of settlers were desecrating the courtyards of Al-Aqsa Mosque, the occupation police were at its gates, lying in wait for the Jerusalemites, imposing restrictions on those heading to perform prayers, and turning away those who tried to enter it, including the worshipper Nafisa Khweis.
In Al-Ghazali Square, at Bab Al-Asbat, leading to the blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque, three guards used to sit at the closest point to the Holy Mosque in order to pray and supplicate. They were Nafisa Khwais, Nizam Abu Ramuz, and Khair Shimi.
But the situation was different yesterday, Tuesday, as on all occasions when the mosque is called for to be stormed. While the Israeli police were overseeing the settlers’ incursions into Al-Aqsa, they quickly removed the three worshipers from Bab Al-Asbat outside the walls of the holy city.
On the olive grove overlooking Al-Aqsa Mosque, the elderly Palestinian woman sat, her eyes filled with the sight of a part of her soul – as she told Al Jazeera Net – and she was filled with prayers to the Lord of the House.
She says that she is used to praying the obligatory prayers whenever she can, explaining that the occupation forces chase her, arrest her, deport her, prevent her from entering the mosque, and deprive her of praying in it.
The Jerusalemite woman added that she has been subjected to persecution and deportation since 2009, and if she is able to enter, she is pursued throughout the Holy Mosque and forcibly removed from it.
Despite all of this, Nafisa Khuwais insists on trying, confident that Al-Aqsa Mosque will be liberated, calling for people to travel to it.