In another tweet, he wrote that the blazes were "due to the prevention of the calls of the muezzin in occupied Palestine." Another Kuwaiti sheikh, Nabil Ali al-Awad, also took to Twitter in a fiery rant to his 6 million followers on the social media platform."God burned their hearts and their homes and their money and their bodies and make their graves inflamed...because of what they did to the [Muslim] believers," he wrote alongside the hashtag "#Israel_IsBurning."The Persian Gulf sheikh later returned to Twitter to apologized for using the word "Israel" in his previous post, attempting to explain that "there is no such entity. I used the word as part of a hashtag." Reuters contributed to this report.كل التوفيق للحرائق #إسرائيل_تحترق ☺️ pic.twitter.com/WD6FWgrWcw
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