Tens of thousands attend last Friday of Ramadan in Al-Aqsa Mosque

  Friday, 31 May 2019

source: abna

Tens of thousands of Muslim worshippers from Jerusalem, the West Bank attended the fourth and last Friday of Ramadan at the holy Al-Aqsa Mosque Compound in Jerusalem.
AhlulBayt News Agency (ABNA): Tens of thousands of Muslim worshippers from Jerusalem, the West Bank attended the fourth and last Friday of Ramadan at the holy Al-Aqsa Mosque Compound in Jerusalem.
Palestinian worshippers from across the occupied West Bank made their way to the mosque compound, passing into Jerusalem via Israeli military checkpoints stifling the holy city from the north, east and south, amidst a severe heat wave with temperatures reaching as high as 39 degrees Celsius.
Men over 40, children under 13 and women of all ages were allowed to enter Jerusalem without permits for the occasion on Fridays. Men under 40, however, are banned entry into the city unless with a special Israeli permit.
Israeli occupation authorities beefed up police deployments in different parts of the Old City of Jerusalem as well as at all the alleys leading to the mosque compound.
At least two Palestinians were shot dead by the police in two separate incidents today while trying to reach the holy city from the occupied West Bank, one of them the occupation police accused of trying to stab Jewish settlers.
The extremely hot conditions prompted the deployment of emergency medical teams by the Islamic Waqf Department and Palestinian Red Crescent Society outside and inside the mosque compound to deal with emergencies resulting from heat strokes and heat exhaustion.
For many Palestinians in Jerusalem and across the occupied Palestinian territory, Ramadan is directly connected to the Al-Aqsa Mosque.
Al-Aqsa is located in East Jerusalem, a part of the internationally recognized Palestinian territories that have been occupied by the Israeli military since 1967.