The Palestinian Arab news agency Wafa reports that Arabs living in Jerusalem arrived on Thursday evening for a prayer in the square opposite the Mercy Gate in the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound, in order to protest the continued closure of the gate by Israeli authorities.
The Wafa correspondent in Jerusalem reported that the large participation of Arab residents of Jerusalem is a response to calls made on social media for Arabs to gather and hold a prayer in order to pressure the Israeli authorities to reopen the place of worship which, Palestinian Arabs claim, is part of the Al-Aqsa Mosque.
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