The Zionist occupation police said Monday that it had closed down three NGOs affiliated with the Islamic Movement in northern occupied territories for defending Al-Aqsa Mosque against Jewish settlers.

The Zionist occupation police said Monday that it had closed down three NGOs affiliated with the Islamic Movement in northern occupied territories for defending Al-Aqsa Mosque against Jewish settlers.

The Zionist Shin Bet security service said it shut down the three organizations in the northern town of Nazareth that had been set up last year by the Islamic Movement, which has a following among the Palestinians in Zionist entity.

The Shin Bet claimed the groups - Al Aqsa Champions, Muslim Women for Al Aqsa and Al Fajr Foundation for Culture and Literature - paid activists to use "verbal and even physical violence" against visitors to the Jerusalem shrine with the goal of "agitating and stirring up emotions."

The Zionist police said in a statement that the closure of the institutions was based on an order by Zionist Public Security Minister Yitzhak Aharonovitch, 'Israel Radio' reported.

The Zionist Internal Security Agency, meanwhile, claimed that a security assessment shown that the two institutions had been suspected of funding the activities of both the Islamic Movement in northern occupied territories.

The agency added in a statement that the two NGOs had allocated some money to fund the activities of the two movements, which according to it, violated the Zionist law.

It said that the two institutions paid salaries of people who go to the flashpoint Al-Aqsa Mosque in East Jerusalem every day.

The Zionist Defense Minister Moshe Yaalon outlawed all three groups last month. The ministry has the authority to outlaw organizations that it deems a threat to national security. The Shin Bet implemented the ministry's ban.

Police said that offices of the two NGOs had been raided by security forces, where computers and documents related to their accounts had been seized.

According to the statement, some officials of the two institutions had also been detained.

Muslim Women for Al-Aqsa, one of the raided NGOs, said in a statement that a large number of Zionist policemen had raided its office in Nazareth and confiscated equipment.

According to the statement, female workers had been detained by Zionist forces during the raid.