130,000 Muslims attend prayers at Al Aqsa Mosque

More than 3,000 police patrolled the streets of occupied east Jerusalem to prevent any disturbances during what is often a tense time. Ramadan usually coincides with Jewish high holidays and Israel severely restricts access to Al-Aqsa.

"In normal times a half a million people would have come, but a lot of people couldn't come because of Israeli closures," Jerusalem mufti Sheikh Mohammed Hussein was quoted as saying by IINA from AFP.

Israel limited the access of Palestinians from the West Bank to women over 40 and men over 50. The restrictions did not apply to Palestinians residing in annexed east Jerusalem, who have Israeli identity cards, or to Israeli Arabs.