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<div class="publish-date"><span class="label">By</span> AFP | <span class="label">Published</span> Friday, February 04, 2011</div>
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<p class="caption">Palestinian men pray during noon in a street in east Jerusalem, on Friday, February 4, 2011 (AP)</p>
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<p>Access to Al-Aqsa mosque compound was restricted on Friday  in a bid prevent demonstrations in support of the Egyptian uprising  after Muslim prayers, police said.</p>
<p>&#8220;This Friday, we are forbidding access to the compound to men under  50 years old carrying an Israeli identity card,&#8221; police spokesman Micky  Rosenfeld told AFP.</p>
<p>The directive concerned Israeli-Arabs or Palestinians living in annexed east Jerusalem, he said.<br />
All Palestinians from the occupied West Bank were barred, even if they had Israeli papers.</p>
<p>Only 6,000 faithful were able to participate in the prayers as a result of the measures, the Islamic Waqf endowment told AFP.</p>
<p>Rosenfeld said police had reinforced positions in the walled Old  City, amid concerns violent demonstrations would be staged after Friday  prayers in a show of solidarity with the popular uprising in Egypt.</p>
<p>But only sporadic incidents were reported in the neighbourhood of Ras  Al-Amoud, where young people threw stones at police who responded with  tear gas, AFP correspondents said.</p>
<p>The compound contains the Al Aqsa Mosque and the Dome of the Rock and  is the third holiest site in Islam after Makkah and Madina.</p>
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