Crowds of robed worshippers will circle the Kaaba, the black cubic structure at Mecca‘s Grand Mosque, with many expressing sadness eight months into the Israel-Hamas war.
“Our brothers are dying, and we can see it with our own eyes,” a tearful 75-year-old Zahra Benizahra from Morocco told AFP.
Belinda Elham of Indonesia, which has the world’s largest Muslim population, said she would “pray every day so that what’s happening in Palestine ends”.
The war in Gaza was triggered by…