65 thousand worshipers performed Friday prayers at Al-Aqsa

Tens of thousands of Palestinians performed Friday prayers today in the blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque, despite the occupation’s restrictions on checkpoints spread in and around Jerusalem.

Jerusalemite sources said that 65,000 worshipers from the people of Jerusalem and the occupied interior, and those who were able to reach the mosque from the West Bank, performed prayers in its courtyards and covered chapels.

The children distributed water to the worshipers in Al-Aqsa Mosque, while the deportees performed Friday prayers at its gates.

During the Friday sermon, the preacher of Al-Aqsa Mosque, Sheikh Youssef Abu Sneineh, affirmed that the attacks taking place against holy sites are humiliating and disgraceful to the nation, because the mosque is our mosque and no one else has the right to pray in it.

Sheikh Abu Sneineh warned against negligence in the right of Al-Aqsa Mosque, calling for the preservation of the Holy Land because it is the home of the prophets and saints.

Al-Aqsa’s preacher said: “Everything is insignificant except the sanctities, and it is the duty of the nation to preserve them and its blessed mosque.”

Abu Sneineh also called on the people of Jerusalem to preserve the blessings of Al-Aqsa Mosque and the blessings around them.

He expressed his confidence that the occupation will end, and that dawn and freedom for the prisoners in the occupier's prisons is near, God willing.