Israeli police deployed thousands of additional officers at entrances to the Old City leading to the compound containing the Al Aqsa mosque sacred to Muslims and the Western Wall Judaism's holiest site.

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Palestinian leaders are calling on Muslims to turn out in large numbers for Friday prayers at the al-Aqsa mosque in the compound.

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In 2000,confrontations at the site of the al-Aqsa mosque and the Western Wall sparked a bloody, Palestinian uprising known as the Second Intifada, which lasted for several years.

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In Jerusalem, triumphant Muslims built the Al-Aqsa mosque on top of the Jews' revered Temple Mount.

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Abdel Q'ader Husseini, Faisal Husseini's son, told Reuters his father would be buried at Jerusalem's al-Aqsa mosque compound.

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One of Egypt's leading Islamic clerics has prayed at the al-Aqsa mosque in Jerusalem, despite Arab opposition to visiting Israel-controlled areas.

BBC: Egypt's grand mufti visits Jerusalem's al-Aqsa mosque