OCCUPIED JERUSALEM (Palestine Foundation Information Center) The Islamic Endowment Authority affirmed that around 40,000 Muslims performed the Friday prayer at the holy shrine.
Police forces also obstructed Muslim worshipers’ entry to the Aqsa Mosque through its gates, and brutally attacked them, in particular the young men, and checked their IDs.
A number of young men performed the Friday prayer on the roads in the vicinity of the Aqsa Mosque after the Israeli police prevented their access to the holy site.
The Israeli forces also assaulted the Jerusalemite guard Nizam Abu Ramouz near Bab Al-Asbat, and forced him to leave the place coinciding with Friday prayers.
The Israeli forces also abused local residents and Aqsa guards and forced them to leave the Asbat area.
In turn, Aqsa preacher stressed the importance of steadfastness in this blessed land, especially in these blessed days.
He further stressed the need to reject “displacement plans and adhere to our sanctities and our land.”
He stressed the need to reject displacement plans and adhere to our sanctities and our land, and said that “the steadfastness has a great reward and abundant reward from God Almighty.”
Hundreds of citizens were earlier able to perform the dawn prayer at Aqsa and its prayer halls at dawn today, despite the Israeli military presence at the gates of the mosque and surrounding areas.
Israeli forces impose strict restrictions on the entry of worshipers to the Aqsa Mosque, especially on Fridays, preventing thousands of citizens from the West Bank from reaching Jerusalem to perform prayers at the Mosque, as they require the issuance of special permits to cross Israeli military checkpoints surrounding the holy city.
