Given the severe military restrictions the Israeli occupation authorities had placed on mosque entry, tens of thousands of people performed Friday prayer at Al-Aqsa Mosque.

About 40,000 people, according to the Islamic Awqaf Department in Jerusalem, performed Friday prayers within Al-Aqsa Mosque.

According to the Palestinian News Agency (WAFA), the occupation forces are still enforcing harsh limitations on worshipers' access to Al-Aqsa, particularly on Fridays.

Thousands of residents of the West Bank governorates are unable to travel to Jerusalem to pray at Al-Aqsa Mosque because they need special permission to pass through the military checkpoints that encircle the Holy City.