APAwire - APAwire CLIENTS ONLY, Jerusalem - 30 April 2021. Palestinian worshippers pray outside the Dome of the Rock in Jerusalem's Al-Aqsa Mosque compound, Islam's third holiest site, on the third Friday of the holy month of Ramadan
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Each Friday, thousands of Palestinian worshippers anxiously try to attend the weekly prayers at the Al-Aqsa Mosque Compound, making their way through Israeli strict measures, crossing many barriers as Israeli police beef up presence in and around Jerusalem.
This comes as the so-called Israeli Civil Administration, announced that in Ramadan it would allow only 10,000 people from the West Bank to access the mosque, but they would have to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19. Meanwhile, no one from the besieged Gaza Strip was granted a permit to pray at the mosque.
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