JERUSALEM: Hundreds of Muslim worshippers held Eid prayers at the gates of Jerusalem’s Old City on Friday, with Israel closing access to the Al-Aqsa Mosque and other holy sites over the war with Iran. “Today, Al-Aqsa has been taken from us. It’s a sad and painful Ramadan,” said Wajdi Mohammed Shweiki, a silver-haired Palestinian man in his 60s. “It’s a catastrophic situation for the inhabitants of Jerusalem, for Palestinians in general and for all Muslims across the globe.” Since Israel and the US started the war with Iran on Feb.

Palestinians say the move is part of a wider Israeli strategy to leverage security tensions to tighten restrictions

Hundreds of Muslim worshippers held Eid prayers at the gates of Jerusalem’s Old City on Friday after Israeli authorities sealed off access to the Al-Aqsa...