More than 100,000 Muslim worshipers performed Friday prayers at the Al-Aqsa Mosque on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem, the holy site’s Islamic authority reported, after it reopened the previous day following a truce agreed between the United States and Iran.

Jerusalem’s Old City is home to major holy sites for all three Abrahamic religions, which had been shuttered since the start of the war sparked by the US-Israeli attack on Iran on February 28, amid safety restrictions as Iran fired hundreds of missiles at Israel, including at least two that landed in and around the Old City.

Restrictions had been in place prohibiting gatherings of more than 50 people at all of the Old City’s holy sites, including Al‑Aqsa, the Western Wall and the Church of the Holy Sepulchre.

The sites reopened to worshipers on Thursday, a day after Washington and Tehran declared a two-week ceasefire in the Middle East war.

Muslim worshipers had been unable to access the Al-Aqsa even during the holy month of Ramadan this year.

On Friday, more than 100,000 Muslims performed the weekly Friday prayer at Al-Aqsa, according to the Islamic Waqf, the Jordanian body that administers the site.

Footage showed the compound packed with worshipers.

“Hopefully they will not close Al-Aqsa again, and everyone will be able to come to this holy place —whether residents of Jerusalem or from the West Bank,” said 30-year-old Mohammad Saaedeh.

Palestinians from the West Bank remain subject to strict Israeli restrictions based on........

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