This suggests that the video was taken on the last Friday of the recently concluded Islamic holy month of Ramadan.

The ninth lunar month of the Islamic calendar lasted between March 10 and April 9, 2024.

AFP reported that some 120,000 people visited the Al-Aqsa mosque on Friday, April 5, 2024, to mark Laylat al-Qadr, which means “The Night of Destiny” (archived here).

The night commemorates the moment the archangel Gabriel first appeared to Prophet Mohammed and began revealing the Koran.

An AFP journalist in Lebanon noted that the audio track featured in the clips was taken from an older video of a pro-Palestinian demonstration in Jordan, published on YouTube in 2017 (archived here). AFP Fact Check previously debunked another claim using the same audio track (here) in Arabic.

The chant can be heard eight seconds into the YouTube video.

“Labbyaka ya Aqsa”, meaning “We obey you O Aqsa”, is a common chant heard during religious gatherings or pro-Palestinian demonstrations in the Middle East.

The Al-Aqsa mosque compound, known to Jews as the Temple Mount, is a site sacred to both Islam and Judaism in the Old City of Israeli-annexed east Jerusalem that has long been a lightning rod in Israeli-Palestinian relations.