>>2995080In 1916, after Hussein bin Ali had launched the Great Arab Revolt, during the Battle of Mecca between Arab and Ottoman forces, the Ottoman troops bombarded the city and hit the Kaaba, setting fire to the protective veil.[
After heavy rains and flooding in 1626, the walls of the Kaaba collapsed and the Mosque was damaged
During its history, the Black Stone at the Kaaba has been struck and smashed by a stone fired from a catapult,[66] it has been smeared with excrement,[67] stolen and ransomed by the Qarmatians[68] and smashed into several fragments.[68][28]
The Kaaba was bombarded with stones in the second siege of Mecca in 692,
The Kaaba has been repaired and reconstructed many times. The structure was severely damaged by a fire on 3 Rabi' I 64 AH
and there was this one time a bucnh of people took the whole place hostage