Jerusalem Holy Sites Reopen After 41 Days Amid Joy and Tensions

Tears of joy mark reopening of Jerusalem holy sites after 41 days

• Worshippers describe an ‘indescribable happiness’, one calls it ‘a miracle’ • Tensions flare as police disperse Muslims at Al Aqsa for Jewish visitors JERUSALEM : Just before 5am at Jerusalem’s Al Aqsa Mosque compound, a Muslim worshipper prayed in tears. A few hours later, similar emotion overcame Christians and Jews as the city’s holy sites reopened following the truce with Iran. Jerusalem’s Old City contains major holy sites for all three Abrahamic religions, which had been shuttered sin...

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