(Ahlul Bayt News Agency) - Large number of worshipers from Jerusalem and 1948-occupied Palestine performed Friday prayers in the city's streets near Israeli checkpoints after being prevented from having access to al-Aqsa Mosque.
The Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) had barred men under the age of 50 from attending Friday prayers at the al-Aqsa Mosque compound.
IOF soldiers deliberately erected temporary checkpoints on streets and roads leading to the old town and al-Aqsa Mosque, forcing the worshipers to perform prayers instead in the streets.
The occupation troops were intensively deployed in the city's streets and roads and at gates of the Old City and al-Aqsa Mosque, where they erected checkpoints in order to prevent worshipers' access to al-Aqsa mosque.
Meanwhile, Sheikh Muhammad Salim, al-Aqsa Mosque's preacher, called on Jerusalemite and Islamic scholars to issue a new Fatwa (edict) prohibiting non-Muslims' access to Al-Aqsa Mosque only under Awqaf' permission.
Sheikh Salim warned of Israeli escalating threats and attacks targeting al-Aqsa Mosque.
Israeli occupation's attempts to enforce its sovereignty over al-Aqsa Mosque need an immediate Arab and Islamic intervention to support Jerusalem's Awqaf, which represents the sole party responsible for the holy sites according to international conventions, he stressed.
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28 February 2014 - 23:03
News ID: 509997
Large number of worshipers from Jerusalem and 1948-occupied Palestine performed Friday prayers in the city's streets near Israeli checkpoints after being prevented from having access to al-Aqsa Mosque.
