Muslims across the United States marked Eid al-Adha on Sunday with community gatherings and prayers for Palestinians. One of the largest congregations was at the Diyanet Center of America in Maryland, where hundreds gathered for the Eid prayer. In New York, a similar scene unfolded around the Washington Square Fountain. Eid al-Adha, one of the...
The Israeli military killed 24 Palestinians and injured 71 others on the fourth day of Eid al-Adha in Gaza, according to the local health ministry. On the fourth day of the Eid al-Adha holiday, Israeli airstrikes targeted the Al-Mawasi “safe zone” in southern Gaza, killing seven people sheltering in tents. Eyewitnesses reported children were a...
GAZA CITY, Palestine (AA) – At least 21 Palestinians were killed in Israeli airstrikes in the Gaza Strip on Tuesday, the third day of the Eid al-Adha, according to medical sources. Israeli warplanes struck three homes in the central city of Deir al-Balah, killing 13 people and injuring several others, the sources said. Two more […]
RAMALLAH (AA) – Palestinians in the Israeli-occupied West Bank are unable to celebrate Eid al-Adha as they once did because of economic hardships, severe attacks in the Gaza Strip and unlawful actions in the West Bank. Israel’s attacks on Gaza have killed at least 37,232 Palestinians, including 15,517 children and 10,279 women, and...
Dakar, Senegal – AFP In a second-hand shop in the suburbs of Senegal’s capital, Seynabou Sarr is inundated with orders days before West Africa’s largest Muslim festival of Tabaski (Eid al-Adha) . Sarr, 30, constantly answers calls while showing customers second-hand boubous — a traditional robe worn by both men and wome...
Mina, Saudi Arabia – AFP Pilgrims performed Sunday the last major ritual of the hajj, the “stoning of the devil”, in western Saudi Arabia, as Muslims the world over celebrated the Eid al-Adha holiday. Beginning at dawn, the 1.8 million Muslims undertaking the pilgrimage this year threw seven stones at each of three concrete w...
GAZA CITY, Palestine (AA) – Israel’s ban on the entry of sacrificial animals has deprived tens of thousands of families in the Gaza Strip of the opportunity to observe Eid al-Adha and perform the sacrificial rituals as part of Islamic religious practices, the Gaza media office said Saturday. In a statement on the eve of […]
Muslim students in Seattle public schools are facing the dilemma of attending their graduation or celebrating the Eid al-Adha religious holiday. This year, Eid-ul-Adha, which is calculated annually based on the lunar calendar, falls during graduation schedules from June 13 to 18. Students have expressed frustration about the issue. Althou...
