Palestinians Hold Friday Prayers in Al-Quds, Gaza Streets (+Video)
The mosque was almost empty of worshippers, as Israeli forces set up barriers at the entrances to the Old City and the outer gates of Al-Aqsa Mosque.
Only the elderly were allowed to pass through, while hundreds of others had to pray in the streets near the Old City.
The restrictions have been in place since 7 October, when Israel launched a brutal war on the Gaza Strip, killing almost 28,000 people, mostly women and children.
Meanwhile, thousands of people in Jabalia refugee camp, one of the hardest-hit areas in Gaza, held congregational Friday prayers for the first time since the war began.
The prayers were performed in an open spcae as the camp's main mosque was reduced to rubble by Israeli airstrikes.
The war also destroyed the majority of the 1,200 mosques in the Gaza Strip.
Source: Agencies
