Khaberni - Israeli occupation forces, this Sunday evening, prevented worshippers from observing "Laylat al-Qadr", the night of the twenty-seventh of Ramadan, in the blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque, amidst the continued closure of the mosque for the sixteenth consecutive day since the start of the war on Iran, on the twenty-eighth of February/February last month, coinciding with the closure of the Ibrahimi Mosque in the city of Hebron and the prevention of prayers in them.
According to the Jerusalem governorate, the Old City of Jerusalem has turned into a military barrack, from the Wadi al-Joz area to the Damascus Gate down to the Lions' Gate, with hundreds of soldiers and Israeli police elements deployed. The worshippers performed the Isha and Tarawih prayers on the streets of Bab al-Sahira and Damascus Gate in the Old Town of Jerusalem, amidst a complete closure of the Old City.
In addition, Israeli forces erected barriers at the entrances to the town of Issawiya and besieged worshippers at Bab al-Sahira, threatening repression if they continued to stay in the area. In an unusual scene, the prayer halls of Al-Aqsa Mosque appeared empty on Laylat al-Qadr, where only the employees of the Islamic Waqf Department and mosque guards performed prayers inside the mosque. Simultaneously, settlers stormed the Hebron Gate in occupied Jerusalem, while Palestinians are prevented from reaching Al-Aqsa Mosque and observing the rituals of Laylat al-Qadr, under continuous restrictions for 16 days.
