40,000 gather at Friday prayers after inflammatory sermon

Headline: "40,000 held Friday prayers at the Al-Aqsa Mosque amid increased steps of occupation"

"Approximately 40,000 worshippers held Friday prayers yesterday [March 8, 2019] at the blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque plazas amid increased steps of occupation around the Old City [of Jerusalem]…

Blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque preacher Sheikh Ismail Nawahda emphasized that the Muslims alone have an absolute right to the blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque, and they must visit it in order to protect it from the desecration by the occupation and the settler associations."