More photos — with acknowledgement and many thanks to him — from Ghaleb Mashni, our “reporter on the spot” at Al-Aqsa Mosque for holiday prayers on the first day of Eid al-Fitr, after the end of the sacred month of Ramadan.
After prayers, in the streets of the Old City of East Jerusalem, trays of Kaak (a delicious, somewhat chewy white bread covered with sesame seeds) for sale, still hot from the oven.
Worshippers milling around on the grounds of the Al-Aqsa Mosque complex — the Dome of the Rock is in the background, shining in the rays of the morning sun on Friday, the first day of Eid, after the end of Ramadan 07. What looks like a Palestinian Authority banner is hung over the arches — apparently wishing the Palestinian faithful a happy holiday.
The entrance to Al-Aqsa Mosque itself, on Friday morning, the first day of Eid. Who put up that portrait of the late Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat?
Families walking through the streets of the Old City in East Jerusalem, on their way to holiday prayers at Al-Aqsa Mosque on the first day of Eid.
