Tens of thousands of Palestinians performed the last Friday prayers of Ramadan in the Al-Aqsa Mosque in occupied East Jerusalem, despite a heavy Israeli security presence and a raid on the mosque earlier in the day which left dozens injured. Activists and eyewitnesses in the mosque said that around 250,000 people attended the Friday prayer, while the Islamic Waqf (Religious Endowments) Department in Jerusalem gave a lower estimate of 160,000. From the early hours of Friday morning, thousands of Palestinians began arriving at the mosque, which is Islam’s third-holiest site, from within Israel’s…