Visiting Mecca for Hajj, Arab-Israeli Deiaa Haj Yahia ... Palestinian flags despite the Saudi ban on political symbols during the hajj. "This is the flag of freedom," says one of them, Ismail ...

Earlier this month, Saudi officials said they had cleared hundreds of thousands of unregistered pilgrims from Mecca ahead of the hajj. Other countries to report deaths during the hajj this year ...

Muslim pilgrims circumambulate the Kaaba, the cubic building at the Grand Mosque, during the hajj pilgrimage, at the holy city of Mecca, KSA (File image). Source: AP This year, around a million ...

There are 4 million people. Muslims consider Mecca to be the most important religious site in the world since 1,400 BCE. Every year, during Hajj, Muslim pilgrims come from all over the world to visit ...

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People most often die due to extreme heat. The temperature in Mecca during this year's Hajj reached almost 52 degrees Celsius. FSB stops Ukrainian attempt to hijack Russian military helicopter ...

A separate crane collapse at Mecca’s Grand Mosque earlier the same year killed 111. The second-deadliest incident at the Hajj was a 1990 stampede that killed 1,426 people. During this year’s ...

We spent days searching, only to learn she had passed away during Hajj," her son told BBC News Arabic, adding they would honour her wish to be buried in Mecca. Getty Images A woman affected by the ...

The Ka’ba, in the centre of Makkah (Mecca), is the most sacred site in Islam For their journey to count as Hajj, a Muslim must make the pilgrimage during the month of Dhu’l-Hijja, which is the ...

According to the diplomat, all the Russians will be buried in Mecca. They all died because of health issues. The AFP news agency reported earlier that about 600 pilgrims had died during Hajj.

[AFP] Egyptian Prime Minister Mostafa Madbouly said Thursday that 28 deaths were confirmed among the 50,752 officially registered Egyptian pilgrims during Hajj in Saudi Arabia's Mecca. Madbouly ...

The Hajj is "the largest pilgrimage" in the world, drawing almost 3 million Muslims from over 180 countries every year to perform Islamic rituals in Mecca, Saudi Arabia, WHO underlined ...