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A 100-year-old Palestinian woman has overcome medical issues and Israeli roadblocks to pray at Al-Aqsa mosque last week. Centenarian Hajjah Halimah joined over 80,000 worshippers at the Jerusalem mosque \- the third holiest site in Islam – for the first Friday prayers of Ramadan. The Hebron resident, who was born 28 years before the state of Israel was established, was pictured smiling and in her wheelchair as she made her way to the mosque in the heart of Jerusalem surrounded by wellwishers. Hajjah Halimah, who cannot walk, set off early on Friday for the mosque and arrived by noon in time fo…