{"id":86706,"date":"2026-02-20T14:46:15","date_gmt":"2026-02-20T14:46:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/al-aqsa-friday-prayers-israel-restricts-palestinians-from-reaching-mosque\/"},"modified":"2026-02-20T14:46:15","modified_gmt":"2026-02-20T14:46:15","slug":"al-aqsa-friday-prayers-israel-restricts-palestinians-from-reaching-mosque","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/al-aqsa-friday-prayers-israel-restricts-palestinians-from-reaching-mosque\/","title":{"rendered":"Al Aqsa Friday prayers: Israel restricts Palestinians from reaching mosque"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hundreds of Palestinians are gathering at the Qalandiya checkpoint near Ramallah in the occupied West Bank, hoping to enter East <!--more--> Jerusalem for the first Friday prayers of Ramadan at the Al-Aqsa Mosque. Israel has announced that 10,000 Palestinians will be allowed to pray at this sacred site, but entry requires an Israeli permit. Only children under 12, men over 55, and women 50 and older are eligible.<\/p>\n<p>Al Jazeera\u2019s Nour Odeh reports.<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to our channel: <a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/AJSubscribe\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/bit.ly\/AJSubscribe<\/a><br \/>\nFollow us on X : <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AJEnglish\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/twitter.com\/AJEnglish<\/a><br \/>\nFind us on Facebook: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/aljazeera\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/aljazeera<\/a><br \/>\nCheck our website: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/<\/a><br \/>\nCheck out our Instagram page: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/aljazeeraenglish\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/aljazeeraenglish\/<\/a><br \/>\nDownload AJE Mobile App: <a href=\"https:\/\/aje.news\/AJEMobile\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/aje.news\/AJEMobile<\/a><\/p>\n<p>#Palestine #EastJerusalem #Qalandiya #AlAqsaMosque #FridayPrayer #Ramadan #WestBank #IsraeliPermits #IslamicHolySite #PalestineConflict #AlJazeeraEnglish<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hundreds of Palestinians are gathering at the Qalandiya checkpoint near Ramallah in the occupied West Bank, hoping to enter East<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":86722,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-86706","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86706","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=86706"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86706\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/86722"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}