Al Jazeera Net monitors the atmosphere of seclusion in Al-Aqsa Mosque. Medical student Labib Odeh talks about his beginnings with seclusion.
In recent years, the youth of Jerusalem and the Palestinian interior have increasingly tended to seclude themselves, with a smaller number in the West Bank due to Israeli restrictions. The last ten nights of the month of Ramadan in occupied Jerusalem witness an increasing demand for i'tikaf, and the tents of the i'maf are distributed in its courtyards.