JERUSALEM, April 9, 2026 (WAFA) – Around 3,000 Palestinian worshippers were able to perform the dawn prayer at the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound, forty days after it was closed by Israeli occupation authorities.
The Jerusalem Governorate reported that thousands of worshippers were able to perform the dawn prayer at Al-Aqsa Mosque, despite the occupation's strict measures, which included checking IDs, preventing a number of young men from entering, assaulting some worshippers at the gates, and attempting to remove them from the mosque's courtyards.
The Governorate also noted that occupation police detained Munta Amara, a female activist who regularly prays at the mosque, at one of the Al-Aqsa gates, just hours after detaining another young man inside the mosque's courtyards.
Occupation soldiers also assaulted a number of young men and forced them to leave the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound, coinciding with a raid by colonists.
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