The prayer hall closed since 2003, due to a decision by the Israeli military court on the grounds of support terrorism, reopened in 2019 on 22 February by Jerusalemites after clashes between them and the occupation inside and around Al-Aqsa Mosque.
The occupation plans to build a synagogue and place the prayer hall, and many of the incursion into the prayer hall and its desecration, most prominently by an Israeli police officer desecrating the prayer hall with his shoes.
They also tries to close the prayer hall and not open it to pray and arrest whoever opens it the Jerusalemite public stresses that the prayer hall will be open and open to worshipers