Around 500 Palestinians left the Gaza Strip on Sunday en route to occupied East Jerusalem to pray at the Al-Aqsa Mosque for the first time since 2007.

Around 500 Palestinians left the Gaza Strip on Sunday en route to occupied East Jerusalem to pray at the Al-Aqsa Mosque for the first time since 2007, World Bulletin website reported.

The Zionist occupation has allowed 500 Gazans to pray at the holy site as part of what it called "facilities" offered to Palestinians during the Eid al-Adha, which started in Palestine on Saturday.

A source in the Palestinian Civil Affairs Ministry had earlier said that occupation authorities would allow 500 residents of the Gaza Strip to pray at the Al-Aqsa Mosque for three days starting Sunday.

Ever since Hamas resistance movement won 2006 Palestinian legislative polls, the Zionist entity has imposed a tight land and sea blockade on the Gaza Strip.

The Zionist entity occupied East Jerusalem during the 1967 Middle East War. It later annexed the holy city in 1980, claiming it as the capital of the self-proclaimed Jewish state – a move never recognized by the international community.