{"id":525167,"date":"2026-07-04T17:08:15","date_gmt":"2026-07-04T17:08:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/525167\/"},"modified":"2026-07-04T17:08:15","modified_gmt":"2026-07-04T17:08:15","slug":"65000-worshippers-perform-friday-prayers-at-al-aqsa-mosque","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/525167\/","title":{"rendered":"65,000 Worshippers Perform Friday Prayers at Al-Aqsa Mosque&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Approximately 65,000 worshippers performed Friday prayers at the Al-Aqsa Mosque, according to the Islamic Waqf Department in Jerusalem.<\/p>\n<p>The department said tens of thousands of Palestinians began arriving at the mosque from the early morning hours despite Israeli restrictions in Jerusalem\u2019s Old City and its surroundings.<\/p>\n<p>It added that Israeli forces erected metal barriers and restricted access for worshippers, particularly near the Lions\u2019 Gate (Bab al-Asbat), causing delays for those attempting to reach the mosque for Friday prayers.<\/p>\n<p>WAFA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Approximately 65,000 worshippers performed Friday prayers at the Al-Aqsa Mosque, according to the Islamic Waqf Department in Jerusalem.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":525168,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[86686,85,46,2286,2287,43],"class_list":["post-525167","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-israel","tag-al-aqsa-mosque","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-jordan","tag-jordan-news","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/525167","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=525167"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/525167\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/525168"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=525167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=525167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=525167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}