The mass attendance of worshipers comes amid tight israeli security measures.

The zionist police forces set up dozens of roadblocks, conducted extensive searches and checks on Palestinians and their ID cards, and prevented many of them from reaching the holy Islamic site.

The heavy presence of zionist police was seen at the entrances, surroundings and alleys of the Old City in Jerusalem as well.

Meanwhile, Haroun Nasreddin, in charge of Hamas's Jerusalem Office, said that the israeli settlers’ calls to break into the Al-Aqsa Mosque on Saturday and Sunday are desperate attempts to Judaize the Muslim holy site and impose israeli ‘sovereignty’ over it, as part of schemes to divide the compound temporally and spatially.

In a statement issued Friday, he warned the "Temple Mount" groups against exploiting occasions to implement their malicious schemes aimed at rebuilding the alleged temple and impose a new status quo in the holy city.

He further called on the Palestinian people and the Arab and Muslim nations to face off such malignant plots, protect the Al-Aqsa Mosque, and ward off attempts to Judaize Jerusalem with all means possible.  

He concluded by saying that the Israeli attempts to impose a temporal and spatial division at the Al-Aqsa Mosque are bound to fail.

Earlier Thursday, the zionist occupation authority decided to allow Jewish settlers to desecrate the Al-Aqsa Mosque in large numbers on Saturday and Sunday to mark the alleged destruction of the temple occasion. (ILKHA)