CROSSFIREARABIA – Around 70,000 performed the Friday prayers in the Al Aqsa Mosque despite sever restrictions imposed by forces of the Israeli occupation on the Muslim holy places in East Jerusalem. The Jerusalem Awqaf Directorate stated, Friday, that around 70,000 Palestinians from all over the occupied West Bank made the noon prayers in the Al Aqsa compound. It added that thousands gathered in the vicinity of the holy places since early morning.







