Tens of thousands of worshipers performed Friday prayers in the blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque, despite the occupation forces obstructing their arrival and strict military measures in the Old City and the occupied city of Jerusalem.

The Islamic Endowments Department in Jerusalem reported that about 35,000 worshipers were able to perform Friday prayers at Al-Aqsa, bypassing the occupation’s checkpoints and the careful inspections it conducted at the gates of the Blessed Mosque.

Worshipers flocked from Damascus Gate to the Old City to perform Friday prayers at Al-Aqsa Mosque, while the occupation forces deployed in the vicinity of the Dome of the Rock prayer hall in conjunction with the prayer.

The Israeli occupation forces set up military checkpoints at Lions Gate, coinciding with the Jerusalemites setting out to perform Friday prayers at Al-Aqsa.

The preacher of Al-Aqsa Mosque, Sheikh Khaled Abu Juma, spoke about the suffering of the people of the Gaza Strip that continues with the advent of the new Hijri year, pointing out that the educational process in Gaza has stopped due to destruction and devastation, and the destruction machine has affected students, teachers, schools and universities.

Sheikh Abu Juma highlighted the worsening suffering in Gaza, whose people are subjected to an ongoing war of extermination for the tenth month in a row, explaining that “the people of Gaza are experiencing migration and displacement and do not find helpers for the truth.”

He stressed that “the land of Jerusalem is blessed, and we have no dispute over this right, regardless of the calamities and displacement the occupation does,” stressing that Al-Aqsa is an ideological and historical right that includes all Muslims.