Alwaght-The Israeli regime on Wednesday cancelled a weekly visit allowing elderly Palestinians from the Gaza Strip to travel to occupied East Al Quds (Jerusalem) for Friday prayers at Al-Aqsa Mosque.
Sources at the Palestinian liaison office said that Israeli regime had called off the agreement, which previously allowed 200 Palestinians from besieged Gaza above the age of 60 to worship at the holy site as part of a ceasefire agreement that ended the 2014 Gaza war.
Sources said the Israeli cancelled the agreement on claims that Palestinian worshipers travelling for worship were not returning to the Gaza Strip on the same day of the visit as the agreement stipulated.
The Al-Aqsa Mosque compound, located in the Israeli-occupied Old City of al-Quds, is a flashpoint Islamic site, also holy to the Jews. The mosque is Islam’s third-holiest site after Masjid al-Haram in Mecca and Masjid al-Nabawi in Medina.
Increased Israeli regime’s presence at the site last year contributed to an escalation of tensions that triggered a the third Intifada or uprising across occupied Palestine since October last year leaving at least 190 Palestinian dead.
