Jerusalem Friday prayers sees smaller crowds amid partial coronavirus lockdown

Palestinian worshippers scuffled with Israeli police in East Jerusalem on Friday as crowds headed to Al-Aqsa Mosque to pray, amid a partial lockdown imposed to prevent the spread of the coronavirus. The crowds were much lower than usual, witnesses said, with only a few hundred in attendance. Al-Aqsa Mosque and the adjacent Dome of the Rock were closed by Muslim authorities last week, in a move to protect worshippers at Islam’s third holiest site.

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