Israel limits Muslim worshippers at Al-Aqsa by age during Ramadan

JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israel volition licence immoderate Muslims implicit 50 and their children from the occupied West Bank to participate Jerusalem's Al-Aqsa Mosque compound connected Fridays during Islam's beatified period of Ramadan, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's bureau said connected Thursday.

A connection said a "limited fig of Muslim worshippers" would beryllium admitted successful enactment with past year's statement starting connected Friday without specifying a number.

Those allowed are men property 55 and older, women property 50 and older and children up to property 12. They indispensable besides walk information screening

"It is emphasized that determination is nary regulation regarding Israeli Arabs", it added.

The Al-Aqsa lies astatine the bosom of Jerusalem's Old City connected a elevation known to Jews arsenic Har ha-Bayit, oregon Temple Mount, and to Muslims internationally arsenic al-Haram al-Sharif, oregon The Noble Sanctuary.

Muslims respect the tract arsenic the 3rd holiest successful Islam, aft Mecca and Medina. Al-Aqsa is the sanction fixed to the full compound and is location to 2 Muslim beatified places: the Dome of the Rock and the Al-Aqsa Mosque, besides known arsenic the Qibli Mosque, which was built successful the 8th century.

This week is the archetypal Friday successful the Muslim fasting month.

(Reporting by Alexander Cornwell, penning by Yomna Ehab; Editing by Cynthia Osterman)