Tens of thousands performed Friday prayers, in the vicinity of the blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque, despite the strict military measures imposed by the Israeli occupation forces at the gates and entrances of the Old City in occupied Jerusalem.

The Islamic Endowments Department in Jerusalem estimated that about 50,000 prayers attended Friday prayer in the Al-Aqsa Mosque.

Local sources stated that the occupation forces deployed in the streets of the city and within the vicinity of Al-Aqsa Mosque, stationed at its gates, stopped the prayers, checked their identity cards, and assaulted them. A number of them sustained injuries and bruises.