Prayers in Moroccan mosques friday for Palestinian martyrs
Morocco-Palestine, Politics, 4/18/2002

Prayers in the memory of the Palestinian martyrs will be performed in mosques throughout Morocco Friday, announced the ministry of habous (endowments) and Islamic affairs.

At the instruction of King Mohammed VI, prayers of the absent will be performed Friday in the memory of the martyrs of occupied Palestine immediately after the Friday prayers, the ministry said in a release.

"The prayers will be performed following the painful events befalling the brotherly Palestinian people and subsequently the whole Islamic ummah (nation) and following the iniquitous racism acts committed by the Zionist enemy in Al-Aqsa Al-Sharif mosque and throughout the regions and cities of the occupied Palestinian territories," the release said, adding these acts had killed and injured hundreds of martyrs, children, men and women, young and elderly, who embalmed with their blood the holy land of Al-Israa and Al-Miiraj.

The ministry urged all worshippers to perform the absent prayers.

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