Muslims celebrated the first day of Eid al-Adha, as about 150,000 Palestinians performed the Eid prayer at the blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque, and worshipers in various countries listened to sermons that included calls for harmony and unity.

Despite the festive atmosphere in Al-Aqsa Mosque, where balloons carrying Palestinian flags were launched, the occupation forces stormed the mosque to remove a banner of the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas).

In Gaza, hundreds of Palestinians participated in the performance of the Eid prayer rituals in the public squares in the governorates of the Strip. The worshipers called for freedom for the prisoners and mercy for the martyrs, lifting the Israeli siege on the Strip, visiting Jerusalem, which the occupation deprives them of, and praying in Al-Aqsa Mosque.

In Syria, the joy of Eid is absent in the camps for the displaced in the north of the country, where most of them suffer from deteriorating living and health conditions and the spread of poverty and unemployment.

This year, Eid al-Adha coincides with the failure of the Security Council to extend the mechanism for transferring aid across the Turkish border to northern Syria.

Before slaughtering sacrifices in one of the displacement camps in Idlib (Anatolia)

Mosques in the cities and towns of northern Syria were filled with thousands of worshipers from Azaz, al-Bab, Afrin to Jarablus, Marea and others.

As for Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, he performed the Eid prayer in the city of Aleppo, which he arrived there yesterday, Friday, in the first declared visit to the region since the outbreak of the Syrian revolution in 2011.

In Iraq, hundreds of worshipers performed the Eid prayer in the square of the famous historic Al-Nuri Mosque in the center of the city of Mosul, for the first time in 5 years.

The worshipers called for the speedy reconstruction of the mosque and the removal of traces of the destruction that occurred in the mosque during the battles to retake Mosul from the Islamic State in June 2017.

In all countries of Muslim countries, east and west.. Muslims perform the blessed #Eid_Al-Adha prayer in an atmosphere of joy pic.twitter.com/VXgeWJ9XhB

— Al Jazeera (@AJArabic) July 9, 2022

In Sudan, crowds of worshipers performed Eid prayers in the sit-in areas in the capital, Khartoum, where hundreds of people are protesting for the ninth consecutive day to demand civilian rule and the removal of the army from power.

The protesters raised Sudanese flags and pictures of the victims of the recent protests, chanting slogans calling for justice.

In Lebanon, the feast preacher Sheikh Amin al-Kurdi - the trustee of the fatwa in Lebanon - asked questions "to all those in power and government and in the pillars of the state", during his sermon at the Muhammad al-Amin Mosque in the center of the capital, Beirut.

Al-Kurdi continued, "Where is the prosecution of the murderers of the martyr Prime Minister Rafic Hariri after the rulings of the International Court?" He added, "Where is the investigation into the explosion of the Port of Beirut? Where are the people's lost financial rights in banks?"

Al-Khatib also asked, "Where are the water, electricity, medicine, food and fuel? Where is the feeling of safety and tranquility?"

For more than two years, the Lebanese have been experiencing a severe economic crisis, as the value of the local currency collapsed against the US dollar, and the country is experiencing a shortage of fuel and medicine and a sharp decline in purchasing power.

Eid prayer in Metro Manila, Philippines (European)

In Algeria, the preacher of the feast, Sheikh Muhammad Miqatli, said that his country’s joy of independence from the French colonialists (1830-1962) will not be complete without the victory of Palestine and the return of Al-Aqsa Mosque to the bosom of Muslims.

Miqatli said that "Algeria, after long suffering and jihad, celebrates two holidays: Independence Day and Eid al-Adha."

He stressed that the Palestine issue will remain "the mother of issues, and our joy of our independence will not be complete without its victory and the return of Al-Aqsa Mosque and all of Palestine to the bosom of Islam and Muslims."

Algeria will hold for days wide celebrations of the 60th anniversary of the country's independence on July 5, 1962.