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At Al-Aqsa
JERUSALEM, Dec 14 (AFP) - Some 300,000 worshippers flocked to Jerusalem's Al-Aqsa Mosque on Friday for the second weekly prayers of the Muslim fasting month of Ramadan, more than twice as many as the previous week.
Palestinians from the West Bank and Gaza who had been granted special permits allowing them to enter Israel were among those taking part, Israeli police said. The compound, which contains Al-Aqsa and the Dome of the Rock, the third holiest site in Islam, is in East Jerusalem, which was captured and annexed by Israel in 1967. Large numbers of police were deployed to keep order, but no incidents were reported before or during the prayers, apart from severe traffic jams. Israeli police put the number of worshippers at the mosque last week at 130,000.
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