Hawzah News Agency - Thousands of citizens performed Friday prayer at the holy Al-Aqsa Mosque despite the Israeli occupation's restrictions and the deployment of military barriers to impede the access of worshipers.

Sheikh Muhammad Salim, the Friday preacher in Al-Aqsa, called on the Palestinians to protect the Al-Aqsa Mosque and never leave it at all times.

Sheikh Salim stressed the importance of gathering at and permanent attendance in Al-Aqsa Mosque.

He, meanwhile, addressed the normalizers saying, “The normalizers want the occupation of Palestine to be a normal matter. However, the Crusaders occupied the Al-Aqsa Mosque for decades and they were defeated and Al-Aqsa was free.”

Al-Aqsa preacher called on the Palestinians to unite and support the Al-Aqsa Mosque.

About 30,000 worshipers performed Friday prayer in the courtyards of the holy Al-Aqsa Mosque amid strict Israeli measures at its gates and around the gates of the Old City in Occupied al-Quds (Jerusalem).

Since the early morning hours, thousands of worshipers flocked to the Al-Aqsa Mosque from Jerusalem city and the 1948 occupied Palestine and those who managed to get an entry permit from the West Bank.