{"id":21107,"date":"2026-02-22T16:32:06","date_gmt":"2026-02-22T13:02:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ghodsnama.com\/mashreghnews_en\/72772770778395378647\/"},"modified":"2026-02-22T16:32:06","modified_gmt":"2026-02-22T13:02:06","slug":"72772770778395378647","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ghodsnama.com\/mashreghnews_en\/72772770778395378647\/","title":{"rendered":"Thousands Gather at Al-Aqsa Mosque Despite Israeli Restrictions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to reports, despite severe limitations enforced by Israeli authorities, around 80,000 worshippers gathered at Al-Aqsa Mosque for the first Friday prayer of the holy month of Ramadan.Israeli police halted dozens of young Palestinians near the Lion&#8217;s Gate, preventing their entry to Al-Aqsa Mosque to participate in the inaugural Friday prayer of Ramadan.Sheikh Ikrima Sabri, the imam and preacher of Al-Aqsa Mosque, stated that the occupying regime had been planning for about a month to restrict the number of worshippers entering the mosque during Ramadan.The imam expressed that the occupiers are displeased with the large presence of thousands of Muslims at Al-Aqsa Mosque, citing security reasons as a pretext for their actions.He further elaborated that the occupiers&#8217; plans aim to diminish the presence of Muslims in Jerusalem and at Al-Aqsa Mosque.This year&#8217;s actions by the occupying regime during Ramadan have been described as unprecedented with the imam noting that the measures taken by Israel this year are harsher than in previous years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a remarkable display of faith, thousands of worshippers attended Al-Aqsa Mosque on the first Friday of Ramadan, defying unprecedented restrictions imposed by Israeli authorities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":581,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21107","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-palestine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ghodsnama.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21107","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ghodsnama.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ghodsnama.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ghodsnama.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/users\/581"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ghodsnama.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21107"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ghodsnama.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21107\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ghodsnama.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ghodsnama.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ghodsnama.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}