IN PICTURES| Thousands of Palestinians attend Al-Fajr prayer at Jerusalem’s Al-Aqsa Mosque
Occupied Jerusalem (QNN)- Thousands of Palestinian worshipers attended at Friday dawn the Al-Fajr prayer at the Al-Aqsa mosque in the occupied city of Jerusalem, pledging to protect the holy site from Israeli occupation violations.
Local sources reported that large numbers of Palestinian worshipers performed the Al-Fajr prayer at the mosque with the intention of supporting the “Great Fajr” campaign to pray at the holy sites.
Thousands of Palestinian worshippers perform Fajr prayer at Al-Aqsa Mosque in occupied #Jerusalem, today.#FreePalestine pic.twitter.com/8hAyFbcudh
— Quds News Network (@QudsNen) September 30, 2022
#صور من أداء صلاة الفجر في المصلى القبلي #بالمسجد_الأقصى، اليوم pic.twitter.com/GLdMpCLGSV
— Nabdulquds نبض القدس (@nabdulquds) September 30, 2022
The worshipers then gathered at the courtyards of the mosque, confirming their spiritual links to the holy site and rejecting the Israeli systematic Judaization policy.
Every Friday, thousands of Palestinians stream to the Al-Aqsa mosque, the world’s third-holiest site for Muslims. They recite the Holy Quran before performing the Al-Fajr prayer and later the Friday prayers despite the Israeli restrictions.
The “Great Fajr” campaign was launched for the first time in 2020 and started from the fourth holiest place in the Islamic world, Hebron’s Ibrahimi Mosque, with the aim of standing against Israeli occupation’s violations against the mosque and its attempt to judaize it, including the repeated raids by colonial Israeli settlers.
Those days, there have been calls by Palestinian leaders to Muslim worshipers to pray and stay at the Al-Aqsa mosque at all times amid aggressive Israeli violations committed against the mosque with the coming of the so-called Jewish holidays.
Last week, for two consecutive days, starting from Monday, hundreds of colonial Israeli settlers, backed by well-armed Israeli soldiers, broke into Jerusalem’s Al-Aqsa mosque compound to mark the so-called the Jewish New Year. Strict restrictions were imposed by the occupation forces to facilitate the settlers’ incursion while barring Palestinian entry to the site.
