Millions gathered for Friday prayers at the Kaaba

Hundreds of thousands of pilgrims who came to Mecca to perform the pilgrimage duty rushed to the Kaaba Al-Muazzama for the Friday prayer. Together, the pilgrims who came to Mecca to perform the pilgrimage duty performed the Friday prayer. The majority of the congregation for the Friday prayer consisted of those who came for the morning prayer, while the rest joined later. In the afternoon, in the heat reaching 45 degrees in Mecca, nearly 2 million Muslims lined up around the Kaaba Al-Muazzama and the surrounding streets. Due to the fact that the next Friday will be the day of Tawaf Al-Ifadah (the day before Arafat), the pilgrims will leave Mecca early in the morning to ascend to Arafat. Therefore, all the streets around the Kaaba were filled during today’s Friday prayer. Muslims unitedly raised their hands to the sky after the Friday prayer, praying for their oppressed brothers. Those shedding tears for Palestine prayed for an end to the genocide as soon as possible.