Starting Thursday morning, Army, police, and security forces tightened the closure around Jerusalem and security measures inside the holy city, especially around Al-Aqsa mosque compound.

Thousands of local residents, mostly women and elderly, gathered at the hundreds of military check posts around Jerusalem demanding the right to join the holy Friday prayer (last Friday in Ramadan) in Al-Aqsa mosque.

Soldiers and border police refused to allow any of them access to Jerusalem, yet thousands started climbing mountains, walking through field roads, and looking for alternative routs to by pass check posts and arrive to the mosque.

The ones who succeeded to enter had to still face the thousands of soldiers, border police, and policemen who spread in each street and corner inside the city and around the old city in particular.

Latifa Mohammed, 65, from Alkhader Village near Bethlehem said that her trip to the mosque started at 4:00 a.m. and that she finally arrived at the mosque at 4:00 p.m. when asked if it was worth it, she said "all the armies of the world can not stop me from coming to Alaqsa on the holy Friday, this is God's call to us to be there"

200,000 worshipers join the prayer; most of them were residents of Jerusalem and Arab residents of Israel.

Palestinian official source said that it is a disgrace for the state of Israel to deny worshipers the right to pray in the holy sites, confirming that Israel have repeatedly violated the religious rights of non-Jewish groups. The same source called upon the International community to condemn those violations that are contradictory to International law.