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Sunday, September 13, 2009

Gazans lament 8-year prohibition on travel for prayer at Al-Aqsa

MA'AN
“I still remember years ago, my husband and I would with one of the tour groups going to the Al-Aqsa Mosque; I don’t think we paid more than 20 shekels each. We would pray there until the sun set and return to Gaza after dark,” recalled the now elderly Umm Ibrahim sitting in her home in Gaza City on Friday.

“Today I miss the small parts of the soil of Al-Aqsa and the whole city of Jerusalem,” she said.
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