Tens of thousands of Palestinians streamed to Al-Aqsa Mosque in Occupied al-Quds (Jerusalem) to perform Friday prayer despite the Israeli tight restrictions.
Faraan: The Department of Islamic Endowments in Occupied al-Quds said that 65,000 worshipers performed Friday prayer at Al-Aqsa Mosque.
The Israeli occupation authorities deployed since morning hours police checkpoints at the entrances to the Old City of al-Quds that checked the identities of Palestinian citizens.
The Israeli police forces set up dozens of roadblocks, conducted extensive searches and checks on Palestinians coming from the West Bank and Arab cities within Israel, and prevented hundreds of them from reaching the holy Islamic site.
Earlier in the morning, thousands performed dawn prayer at the holy site despite the Israeli restrictions. The Israeli intelligence also threatened drivers of the buses carrying worshipers from Arab cities within the Green Line to Occupied al-Quds.
The Aqsa Mosque is exposed to daily desecration by Jewish settlers and police forces in the morning and the afternoon, except on Fridays and Saturdays.
