Today, Friday, large crowds celebrated the great dawn in the courtyards of the blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque

Al-Aqsa witnessed, at dawn today, a large presence of the people of Jerusalem and the occupied Palestinian territories, as well as those from the West Bank who were able to reach the mosque.

The mosque embraced a spiritual and preaching atmosphere during the dawn prayer, which included reading the Qur’an and various preaching sermons, followed by a group iftar in the corridors of the mosque.

After the dawn prayer, hundreds of worshipers joined together in Al-Aqsa squares, and held circles of remembrance and reading of the Qur’an, which usually continues until the performance of Friday prayers, and some of them continue their union on Friday and Saturday.

The families of Jerusalem continued their calls and participation in the celebration of the great dawn in Al-Aqsa Mosque, in response to the call of the Almoravids for the necessity of crowding in the blessed mosque and intensifying their presence there to protect it from the settlers.

The occupation forces tried to obstruct the arrival of many arrivals to Al-Aqsa to perform prayers by confiscating their ID cards and searching their luggage, including suitcases and bags.

Al-Aqsa Mosque is exposed to many dangers, as a result of increasing settler incursions during Jewish holidays and the implementation of Talmudic rituals that desecrate its courtyards.

The Endowments Department in Jerusalem said that about 50,000 settlers stormed the blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque in 2022, which is the highest since the start of the settlers’ incursions into Al-Aqsa.

During the period of the Jewish holidays, not the last of which is Hanukkah, the settlers seek to crowd in large numbers in Al-Aqsa Mosque, intensifying raids, and attempting to light the menorah inside Al-Aqsa, in addition to carrying out provocations inside the courtyards of the mosque that will last for eight days.

The “Great Dawn” campaign was launched for the first time from the Ibrahimi Mosque in November 2020, to confront the dangers facing the mosque and the repeated incursions of the occupation forces and settlers into it, and then moved to Al-Aqsa Mosque.