Occupied Jerusalem: Tens of thousands of Palestinians performed Friday prayers in Al-Aqsa Mosque, despite the strict military measures imposed by the Israeli occupation authorities at the gates of the mosque and the entrances to the Old City in occupied Jerusalem.
The Islamic Endowments Department in Jerusalem estimated that about 70,000 worshipers performed Friday prayers and absentee funeral prayers for the souls of the victims of the earthquake in Syria and Turkey in the blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque.
The Palestinian News Agency, (Wafa), reported that the occupation forces deployed in the streets of the city and the vicinity of Al-Aqsa Mosque, stationed at its gates, stopped the worshipers, and checked their identity cards.
Al-Aqsa Mosque is subjected daily to a series of incursions by settlers under the protection of the occupation forces, as part of the occupations attempts to divide, while the pace of incursions escalates during the Jewish holidays.
