Hundreds of Palestinian youths were forced to perform the weekly prayers on the wet streets of Al-Quds (occupied East Jerusalem) on Friday after the Zionist security personnel prevented them from entering Al-Aqsa Mosque.

Hundreds of Palestinian youths were forced to perform the weekly prayers on the wet streets of Al-Quds (occupied East Jerusalem) on Friday after the Zionist security personnel prevented them from entering Al-Aqsa Mosque.

In a surprise move on Friday, the Zionist police imposed restrictions on the entry of Palestinian worshippers into the holy site.

Earlier on Thursday, scores of settlers stormed a local shrine in the West Bank city of Nablus, triggering clashes with Palestinians.

Occupation soldiers fired teargas and bullets to disperse Palestinian demonstrators, who had gathered to protest the presence of Jewish settlers at the Joseph Tomb.

Joseph's tomb has long been a flashpoint for violence. Jews believe the site to be the burial place of the biblical patriarch Joseph, while Muslims challenge this claim, saying an Islamic cleric – Sheikh Youssef Dawiqat – was buried at the site two centuries ago.