A video released online appears to show pro-Qatari graffiti which has been sprayed onto a Saudi landmark in the Qassim region of Saudi Arabia.
The words “All of us are Tamim”, in reference to the Qatari Emir Tamim Bin Hamad Al-Thani, and “Glorious Tamim” appeared on a memorial in the central region of the Arabian Penninsula.
Social media activists said the words express the Saudi public’s solidarity with Qatar at a time when the Kingdom has imposed a siege of the small Gulf nation.
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A video uploaded later shows the monument with the words obscured.
After announcing a boycott and siege of Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the UAE imposed strict punishments for anyone found expressing sympathy for their Gulf neighbour.