Jerusalem’s Muslims despair as war shuts Al-Aqsa Mosque for Eid

Jerusalem’s Muslims despair as war shuts Al-Aqsa Mosque for Eid

The Straits Times - Business·2026-03-20 19:00

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JERUSALEM – Hundreds of Muslim worshippers held Eid prayers at the gates of Jerusalem’s Old City on March 20 , with Israel closing access to the Al-Aqsa mosque and other holy sites over the war with Iran.

“Today, Al-Aqsa has been taken from us. It’s a sad and painful Ramadan,” Mr Wajdi Mohammed Shweiki, a silver-haired Palestinian man in his 60s, told AFP.

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