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170,000 attend prayers at the Aqsa Mosque on the first Friday of Ramadan
28 August 2009
Despite the Israeli occupation restrictions more than 170,000 Palestinian worshipers managed to make it to the Aqsa Mosque and attend the prayers on the first Friday of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan. A statement by the Aqsa Foundation for Heritage and Endowment, issued on Friday afternoon, said that tens of thousands of worshippers attended the dawn prayers at the Aqsa Mosque, then droves of worshippers started arriving at the mosque. They were mostly Palestinians living in occupied Jerusalem and in 1948 occupied Palestine with a modest number of Palestinians from the West Bank because West Bank Palestinians need passes to enter occupied Jerusalem. The foundation estimated the number of worshipers who attended the Friday prayers to be in excess of 170 thousand adding that the Bayareq Foundation runs about 130 coaches a day from various Palestinian towns and villages within the green line to the Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem. Sheikh Yousef Abu Sneinah, Imam of the Aqsa Mosque, praised those who despite the obstacles created by the occupation made it to the Aqsa Mosque and called for unity of Palestinians and Muslims. Moussa slams Israel for allowing extremists to storm Aqsa Mosque On his part, Amr Moussa, the secretary-general of the Arab League strongly denounced Israel for allowing extremist Jewish groups to storm the Aqsa Mosque to perform religious rituals. Moussa said that such acts were a precedent never happened since the occupation of east Jerusalem in 1967 and a flagrant violation of international law. Extremist Jewish groups protected by Israeli policemen and soldiers had stormed Sunday morning the Aqsa Mosque and toured around the Mosque and performed some of their rituals. The Aqsa foundation condemned this violation as an unprecedented step and an escalation and urged the Palestinian citizens in occupied Jerusalem and the 1948 occupied lands to frequent the Aqsa Mosque. In another context, the Arab League head expressed hope that the next round of the inter-Palestinian dialog in Cairo to be held after the holy month of Ramadan would be the end of internal division.
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