The Israeli occupation forces turned the city of Jerusalem and its old town into a military barracks before Friday prayers.

Eyewitnesses reported that the occupation forces placed iron barricades at the gates of Al-Aqsa Mosque and the Old City, while hundreds of soldiers were deployed around the city.

The occupation forces tightened their military procedures, searched citizens, checked their identities, and prevented a number of them from reaching Al-Aqsa Mosque, while allowing only Jerusalemites living in the Old City to enter through the gates of the Old City.