Million-Plus Begin Hajj Pilgrimage Under Shadow of Gaza War

par This Is Beirut, 14/06 10:34 - Reading : 2 minute(s)

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More than a million Muslim pilgrims were in Mecca Friday for the start of a hajj pilgrimage held against the grim backdrop of the Gaza war and in exhausting summer heat. Crowds of robed worshipers 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 ...