5,500 Jerusalemite citizens performed Friday prayers in the blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque, due to the strict Israeli occupation measures, at the entrances to the Old City of Jerusalem and the gates of the mosque.

The Islamic Endowments Department said in a statement that the occupation forces prevented worshipers from entering the blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque, which prevented thousands of people from being able to pray.

Citizens performed Friday prayers outside the Old City, specifically in the neighboring Wadi al-Joz, and the occupation forces suppressed them with bullets and poison gas, and beat them.

For the fourth Friday in a row, worshipers are unable to reach Al-Aqsa and pray there, due to strict military measures, while the number previously reached more than 50,000 citizens.

The Israeli occupation forces suppressed worshipers in the Wadi al-Jouz neighborhood in occupied Jerusalem, after preventing them from reaching the blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque, for the fourth Friday in a row.

Eyewitnesses reported that the occupation forces fired rubber-coated metal bullets and toxic tear gas and pursued the worshipers, beating a number of them.

A small number of citizens were able to reach the blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque to perform prayers, despite the strict military measures imposed by the occupation forces at the entrances to the town and the gates of the mosque, while others were forced to pray in the streets of the Wadi Al-Joz neighborhood adjacent to the town.