(Ahlul Bayt News Agency) - Having fasted for a month, thousands of Libyans gathered at Martyrs Square in Tripoli to mark the end of the holy Muslim month of Ramadan.
This is the first time in over forty years that Libyans are commemorating the sacred holiday without Gaddafi in power.
During the ceremony, they honored the memory of those who lost their lives while fighting pro-Gaddafi forces in recent months.
On Tuesday, a Libyan opposition commander said almost 50,000 people had been killed since the outbreak of the country's revolution in mid-February to overthrow the Gaddafi regime in the bloodiest uprising in the Arab world.
Similarly in Yemen, thousands of people have turned out across the restive country to mark the end of Ramadan and hold Eid al-Fitr prayers.
The celebrations in Yemen were also influenced by the ongoing protests as people prayed for the victory of their revolution, which erupted in late January, calling for an end to corruption and unemployment in the Middle Eastern country and demanding the ouster of Ali Abdullah Saleh.
The demonstrators have rejected a power transfer plan brokered by the [Persian] Gulf Cooperation Council ([P]GCC) on numerous occasions and accused their Arab neighbors, particularly Saudi Arabia, of meddling in their country's internal affairs.
Meanwhile, Egyptians have also joined a mass prayer in Cairo's Liberation Square, where protesters demanding an end to the regime of Egypt's ousted dictator Hosni Mubarak usually gathered after a popular revolution broke out in the country in mid-February.
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