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In the first Friday prayers of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, about 90,000 Palestinians prayed at the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound in Jerusalem’s Old City under tight security by Israeli forces.

It comes as Wallen’s reimagining of Hubert Parry’s Jerusalem, written for a scaled-down Last Night of the Proms in 2020 during the Covid pandemic, was dedicated to the Windrush Generation.

JERUSALEM (AP) — In the first Friday prayers of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, about 90,000 Palestinians prayed at the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound in Jerusalem’s Old City under tight security ...