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‘Difficult’ Friday prayers at Jerusalem’s Al-Aqsa mosque
Under a heavy police presence, tens of thousands of Muslims attended the first Friday prayers of Ramadan in east Jerusalem's Al-Aqsa mosque compound, a gathering weighed down by the war in Gaza.