Worshippers take part in the last Friday prayers of Ramadan at the Dome of the Rock Mosque in the Al Aqsa Mosque compound today.
With health restrictions mostly lifted following Israel’s swift Covid-19 vaccine campaign, worshippers packed tightly together as they knelt in prayer on the tree-lined hilltop plateau containing the mosque, Islam’s third-holiest site. “Our people will remain steadfast and patient in their homes, in our blessed land,” Abu Sunainah said of the multiple Palestinian families in East Jerusalem’s Sheikh Jarrah who could be evicted under a long-running legal case.
The spokesman for the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights said the evictions, “if ordered and implemented, would violate Israel’s obligations under international law” on East Jerusalem territory it captured and occupied in the 1967 Middle East war.