Saudi religious scholar: Lift the siege on Gaza

MAKKAH (Ahlul Bayt News Agency) - Top Saudi religious scholar Sheikh Abdurrahman Sudais, addressing Muslim pilgrims before Friday prayers at the Grand Mosque in Makkah, called on Muslims to work to create a solution for the Palestinian cause and liberate the Aqsa Mosque.

The Sheikh demanded an end to the Israeli siege against the Gaza Strip, calling on the Palestinians to unite and put aside their differences.

More than two million pilgrims gathered in the holy mosque to attend the sermon and prayer, amid a flood of oncoming seasonal visitors to the holy lands.

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