Some 120,000 people attended the second Friday prayers of Ramadan at the al-Aqsa Mosque on the Temple Mount, which ended peacefully and without any disturbances, police and religious authorities said.
The Islamic Waqf, which administers the mosque compound, estimated that around 120,000 people took part in the prayers, up from an estimated 80,000 last week.
Police in a statement said that they had deployed thousands of officers in Jerusalem’s Old City and around the Temple Mount to ensure that the event passed peacefully. Police did not give a specific number, saying only that "tens of thousands took part."
Police said there were "no unusual disturbances," however, they noted that there had been attempts to "spread fake news and false stories on Arabic social media" in an attempt to incite violence.
The Haaretz daily reported that around 10,000 of the worshippers traveled from the West Bank to attend the prayers.
This marked the second successive Friday prayers to pass without incident in the Moslem holy month despite fears of disturbances after the Hamas
...the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood,...terror group had called on Paleostinian worshipers to barricade themselves inside the al-Aqsa Mosque.
In a statement last week, Hamas had called on followers to "participate urgently in defending al-Aqsa Mosque against the aggression that lurks in these critical times."
In past years during Ramadan, Paleostinians have at times barricaded themselves inside the al-Aqsa Mosque, which is situated on the Temple Mount, some with explosives and rocks. Police operations to clear them out have often resulted in violence.
This year’s Ramadan comes amid tinderbox tensions stemming from the ongoing war against Hamas in Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about
oppressionand
disproportionate response...
, triggered by the group’s shock October 7 attack, when thousands of Lions of Islam rampaged through southern Israel, killing some 1,200 people and taking 253 hostages.
Terror groups have called on Paleostinians to come to the al-Aqsa Mosque to confront Israel over the war in Gaza.
Police officers scuffled with some attendees at the Temple Mount entrance on the first night of Ramadan, but the holy site has been relatively peaceful since.
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