JERUSALEM, March 7 (Bernama-WAFA) -- Israeli occupation authorities continued the closure of the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound for the eighth consecutive days, Palestine News and Info Agency (WAFA) reported.
Israeli forces closed the compound last Saturday morning, forcing worshippers to leave and preventing the performance of the Isyak and Tarawih prayers.
This coincided with a closure imposed on the West Bank, hours after a large-scale attack launched by Israel and the United States against Iran.
On Friday, for the third consecutive week, worshippers were also barred from performing Friday prayers at the mosque.
Israeli authorities have rarely imposed a full closure of Al-Aqsa by official decision on Fridays, doing so only five times since the occupation of Jerusalem in 1967.
-- BERNAMA-WAFA
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