Snow blankets parts of Middle East for the first time in six years

Snow has blanketed parts of Syria, Lebanon, Jordan and Israel for the first time in years.

People in Jerusalem woke up to the rare experience of seeing the city’s holy sites covered by snow on Thursday. The Dome of the Rock, and the Western Wall sat under a white layer after an overnight storm. The snowstorm began on Wednesday evening. Before dawn, children were up hurling snowballs at each other outside the Old City gates, as the faithful trudged to sites holy to Judaism, Islam and Christianity. It was the first time snow has covered the city in six years.

The first snow this winter in the Syrian capital, Damascus, led the University of Damascus to call off mid-term exams scheduled for Wednesday and Thursday in all its branches across Syria because of the extreme weather conditions. However, it did not stop the Premier League football tournament in the capital from going ahead, with the Army Sports Club facing Al-Karamah as snow covered the pitch, the Syrian Al-Watan daily newspaper reported.

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