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Clashes, prayers in Jerusalem on Muslim Laylat al-Qadr

Middle East · May 8, 2021 · 11:53 PM UTC

Clashes erupted between Palestinian protesters and Israeli police outside the Old City of Jerusalem on Saturday as tens of thousands of Muslim worshippers prayed at the nearby Al-Aqsa Mosque on Islam's holy night of Laylat al-Qadr.

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