Al-Aqsa Mosque preacher Sheikh Mohammed Salim on Friday welcomed the national reconciliation agreement reached between Hamas and Fatah movements.
Sheikh Salim said in his Friday sermon at al-Aqsa Mosque that the Palestinian people are looking forward to achieving national unity calling on the two parties to keep their political disputes at bay.
Sheikh Salim appealed to the Muslim nation to support Jerusalem and al-Aqsa Mosque and asked Palestinian worshipers to intensify their presence at the site to foil the Israeli schemes targeting it.
Tens of thousands of worshipers performed Friday prayer in al-Aqsa Mosque amid tight security measures.
Israeli authorities on Friday imposed strict security and military measures on Jerusalem and Israeli police forces and other special units were intensively deployed in the holy city on the eve of Yom Kippur holiday.
The Israeli measures were launched at night Thursday and tightened early on Friday especially in the center of the city in its old town and at the military checkpoints erected at the main entrances of Jerusalem.
