Livestock merchants prepare sheep for the upcoming Eid al-Adha feast in Damascus, Syria, June 13, 2024. (Photo by Ammar Safarjalani/Xinhua)
CAIRO, June 15 (Xinhua) -- Muslims across the Middle East are preparing to celebrate Eid al-Adha, the festival of sacrifice, which is due to start on Sunday. People will perform the primary ritual of the festival by slaughtering an animal - a goat, sheep, camel, or cow, and distributing the meat to their family members and friends, as well as the poor and needy.
This photo taken on June 11, 2024, shows sheep traders at a livestock market on the outskirts of Cairo, Egypt ahead of Eid al-Adha. (Xinhua/Ahmed Gomaa)
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A boy holds a handful of sweets at a store ahead of Eid al-Adha in Damascus, Syria, June 12, 2024. (Photo by Ammar Safarjalani/Xinhua)
A customer buys sheep at a livestock market in Ankara, Türkiye, June 13, 2024. (Mustafa Kaya/Handout via Xinhua)
People are seen ahead of Eid al-Adha at the Jabalia refugee camp in the northern Gaza Strip on June 14, 2024. (Photo by Mahmoud Zaki/Xinhua)
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A boy is seen in a livestock farm ahead of Eid al-Adha in the southern Gaza Strip city of Khan Younis on June 14, 2024. (Photo by Rizek Abdeljawad/Xinhua)
People visit a market ahead of Eid al-Adha at the Jabalia refugee camp in the northern Gaza Strip on June 14, 2024. (Photo by Mahmoud Zaki/Xinhua)
A boy feeds sheep at a livestock market ahead of Eid al-Adha in Baghdad, capital of Iraq, on June 12, 2024. (Xinhua/Khalil Dawood)
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Yemeni farmers sell livestock at a market ahead of Eid al-Adha in Aden, southern Yemen, on June 12, 2024. (Photo by Murad Abdo/Xinhua)
People visit a livestock market in preparation for the upcoming Eid al-Adha in Tripoli, Libya, on June 11, 2024. (Photo by Hamza Turkia/Xinhua)
Vendors and buyers gather at a livestock market ahead of Eid al-Adha in Beni Suef Governorate, Egypt, June 13, 2024. (Xinhua/Ahmed Gomaa)■