Citizens to return to prayers at Al-Aqsa Thursday - Officials

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July 27, 2017 11:20 AM

Palestinians will return to pray at Jerusalem's Al-Aqsa mosque on Thursday afternoon for the first time in nearly two weeks, its authorities said, after Israel removed remaining new security measures.

A truck removes the remaining barriers from Jerusalem's Al-Aqsa mosque compound on July 27, 2017

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"The Islamic religious authorities in Jerusalem call on Palestinians to enter the Al-Aqsa mosque to perform the afternoon prayer," an official of the Waqf, the Islamic endowments authority which runs the mosque, told reporters.

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