allah, allah, the azan, the islamic call to prayer reverberates from mosques throughout the city of gaza. five prayer times each and every day summon allah's faithful servants. since the period of the first interfada in the year 2000, religion. awakening has grown

dramatically in the gaza strip. at that time, the number of mosks was estimated to be 500. statistics 14 years later in 2014 show that this number has now doubled to nearly 100 mosks which are attended by hundreds of thousands of muslims both night and day. and the teaching of the muslims, they have the forgiveness, which they call it in arabic. so to forgive someone suppose supposed to have love. there is a striking image which is evident in almost every palestinian city. in the neighborhood of zaitoon in gaza city, for example, you can see the katib al-wilayah mosk situated next to the roman orthodox church, the church of porphy. this living example witness for centuries proves that

fraternity and tolerance between the muslim and christian communities is indeed possible, and how the fate of each community is linked to that of the other in the land of palestine. christians and muslims, we have to live together in love, because we are the creation of god and the god is one, so special here in gaza, christians and muslims who are living in a very... good relationship, very close relationship, because we are living as family, we participate together, christians and muslims in their fastivities in their social life, social events, we all share the same concern for the marters and for the wounded, we suffer together, which prompts the...

christian to host the muslim and vice versa so that we introduce to the whole world demonstration of brotherhood between muslims and christians in gaza and palestine at large. the fraternity among muslim and christian communities was also demonstrated when the ferocity of the most recent war imposed by israel on the gaza strip in 20. 2014 escalated to inhumane degree that shocked the world when the israeli occupation army invaded border areas indiscriminately, killing men, women and hundreds of children and displacing thousands of ordinary citizens who were forced to seek asylum safer shelters. churches and christian homes served as shelter for thousands of victims. we refused to leave from the beginning. the

israelis dropped flyers from their flames asking us to leave, but we refused up until yesterday and the day before. all of baithan was flaring under phosphorus bombs, emitting poisonous gas and the f-16s in the sky and هذا tanks on the ground. we waited until daylight to leave, while our house was destroyed. allah grants victory to the resistance. we accept the people in the church, because we are very close in the area when they were hitting the israeli army. we are very... close to sayya and zitoon, we are in zaitoon, and so many people from betlaha, bet khan and which they are supposed to leave their places, because it was heated their places from the tanks, so they run to find a safe place, safe place, it is the most or the church, young father or young woman carrying baby on his hands or... your hands, you

cannot close your eyes, you hard speak and you have to apply, so this is the um... the cause that we open the doors of the church and to accept the people, the compassion and empathy did not stop at the churches hosting displaced persons, but even more was offered providing environments to muslims to lead islamic prayers in their churchyards. during the ramadan time, so this it was very difficult time for the people. it was the holy day of elkader which... they call it in arabic, which supposed this people to pray during the night time, so the church respect everybody, so what we have done, we gave to them all the the freedom, all the permission

to pray down in the yard of the church, without no comments. units communities, the israeli occupation forces were lived to discover this muslim christian unity, so they decided to open fire a church an effort to spoil this rising affinity and sympathy under the false pretext that they observed rocket fire coming from the church grounds. this was a war on people, not a war on hammers by an entity which has a long history of massacring the innocent since 1946. the situation explains the relationship between the muslims and the christians in the gaza strip as we share the same experience and sorrow together while we walk towards the liberation of our goods jerusalem and the church of the holy sepulker. israel targeted places of worship

and even schools, universities, hospitals and cemeteries with their attacks, gross violations of international law that reflects the moral depravity and severity of the israeli occupation. army and indirectly the complicity of western nations, whose medias and governments widely ignored the deliberate targeting and bombing of churches and mosks in the gaza strip. in all, more than 200 mosks were blown up with debris raining down on the heads of innocent worshipers. the israely occupation reduced 74 mosks to rubble, while 179 more were directly. hit by this aggression, several mosks were destroyed top of the heads of worshippers such as algasan mosk in alusierat of middle governorat. they were killed while waiting for the dawn prayer service to begin.

al-qasam mosk in nusirat, also known as the grand mosk, used to be the largest mosk in the middle zone of gaza, where it is densely populated, after an israeli air strike reduced it to dust. all that is recognizable now is the minaret. the claim that mosks were being used to harbor weapons and tunnels is unproven and denied by local residents. the occupation army contacted us on saturday august the 8th. the caller introduced himself as officer musa asking whether this was yahya at tamil's house. my husband answered in the affirmative. the officer informed him that we have five minutes to evacuate as they are intending to target alkassarmos.

have to evacuate as the alassam mosk was going to be targeted. we dressed and went to my brother-in-law's house in this tower. the mosk was hit the minutes later. was escaping when just 3 to 40 mes behind me they hit the place with another missile. the vicinity was covered with dust and smoke. it was horrifying. my neighbors and beloved ones were calling asking where i was. told them i was... in the early morning hours following the

bombardment, two bodies were retrieved while the third, the body of my son zodi remained somewhere under the rubble, they searched for th days with an excavator, but found nothing. the search was... called off but resumed again after 60 days, the excavator operator came across my son's body then العثور عليه. damages while the barrier between us and the mosk was removed, our home and the shop

sustained a great deal of damage, the entire pullpit flew into the house, the electrical generator was this side but ended up landing in abuz family's grocery shop, can you see this repair shop where the electrical generation entered, can you see what the shop looks like now, a 60 kilo electrical generator flew to the shop, was located west of gaza city in the densely populated shati refugee camp. this mosk too was reduced to rubble by israel's us provided f16 war jets. the raid resulted in the destruction of residential homes surrounding the mosk and caused the fall of martters and many injuries amongst the families residing in that neighborhood. the enemy targeted this mosque

in its recent aggression like they did to the other mosques in the gaza strip كما باقي المساجد في قطاع غزه حوالي الساعه ا on july 30th they hit the mask with unmanned drones that landed on the water tankers. none of the neighbors heard anything and so did nothing, then they fired another missile which made us aware and think they were going to target the mosque as that was the way the israeli occupation worked with unmanned drone missiles firing first يضربوا صاروخ زنانا طلعنا على طول على البلكونات على الشبابيك الواحد يعني يشوف ايش اللي موجود او ايش we went to the balconies and windows immediately to see what was going on, we didn't know the damask was the target and the misa's... the water tankers, they fired another missils after that, then people started to scream,

urging us and our neighbors to leave our homes, we were unsure as to whether we should leave and risk getting bombed or stay and be exposed to the same risk, it was indescriib time, مش قادر الواحد ساعه رعب يعني وساعه وصف, we had 50 people in our house, i was awake with my family next to me, which includes three boys, two daughters and my wife. my two brothers and their families were there as well, totaling about 50 people. i woke the boys up and the girls and rushed to my brother upstairs. i can't describe to you how this all happened in just minutes. those who were sleeping woke up alarmed and we had to look after the elderly members and those who needed to be carried. bottom line, we all left the building. separated from each other, lost three of my kids and had to go back to search for them. we weren't able to grasp

what was happening in the moment. electricity was caught and neighbors were screaming while ambulances rushed injured and firefighting crews raised around. had to return after receiving a phone call from my neighbors telling me that my kids were at his place. on the way was injured, hit by shrapnail in my food, back and head, and my brother was injured too. 'we were running, but we couldn't run far because the mesas came down so fast as we were following one another. نبعد لانه الصواريخ فجاه يعني ورا بعضها قصف المسجد اثنين صواريخ كما يقولون, this mosk was targeted with two unmanned drone missiles followed by two f-16 vacuum missiles as they call them. the f-16 rate was the reason for the collapse of the minaret on the rod one family's home. ضربه صواريخ الف 16 هي كانت السبب في نزول او سقوط المئذنه على بيت. the

tip of the minaret that collapsed onto the house weighed 10 tons, it flew about eight meters onto the roof. it was allah's mercy that prevented it from falling on the neighbors, otherwise none of them would have survived. the main body of the mineret broke three to four roofs due to its heavy weight. miscarried on the spot due to the explosion. my sister-in-law was six months pregnant, she they sprayed missiles over the palestinian people to the extent that shrepnel, sand and small stones reached as far as 500 meters,

الشضايا الرمال الحصور الصغير يوجد بعض الاصابات. there were 20 to 30 injuries suffered by people in nearby houses due to the impact of stones and glass flying. alsosi worshippers refused to be distracted from performing their prayers near the mosk and so set up a makeshift mosk a vacant land beside the original location only to see it bombed also. israeli aircraft did not give them the opportunity to pray. وفعلا بدانا بنصب الحديد وتجهيز المصلى وكان we started preparing a makeshift mosk the very next day, an organization provided us with a shading to finish it, we were shocked the next night to be hit by another bombardment targeting the area, we rushed to the area to find they targeted the exact spot we were preparing to

build, the town of huza in the south with the population of 9,000 suffered immense damage after it was heavily bombarded for 3 days by the israeli regime to the degree that the town was almost completely wiped out. seven mosks out of nine were destroyed, the most prominent being the township center mosk, jamad ibad ar-rahman. to the annihilation, israeli forces besieged the town for 10 days, cutting it off from the outside world. a red cross worker described the scene as a tsunami of death, unfortunately, they sabotiged the infrastructure and the structures. the whole electricity network in atlanta neighborhood and the entire city in hozar was destroyed.

it was intentionally leveled by bulldozers. they removed the pylons, wires, water networks, and everything, they even level seven most and blew them up with dynamite. they are taking out their anger on the masks, we don't know why they're doing this to masks, they target people, mosks, houses and everything around the mosk, all surrounding houses were destroyed, i live next to the mosk, but no one passes by or great, northern gaza also suffered extensive destruction of its mosks. one example was the beautiful omar abdul aziz mosk in bait hanon, important to muslims worldwide and renovated by a malaysian islamic organization in 2013 was bombed to smithharines for the second time in its history by an israeli air strike. rubble

and a pile of concrete remain. they targeted this mosk in every war. this is second time now. the first building was bigger than this. it was three or four floors high. but it was targeted too. the omar mosk that we built was targeted as well. if they had destroyed my house it would be much easier for me to bear. i have a great affection for this mosk that allah only knows. the mosk is my whole life as i attended there one or two hours before the call for prayer to recite the quran and help clean the mosk. a whole life revolves around the mosque. the israeli occupation demonstrates its hatred on houses of the lord, destroyed mosks were found to have no weapons or resistance in them. we at the ministry of wacth supervised the mosks. we challenged the occupiers to present one piece of evidence that mosks were being targeted

because of the palestinian resistance or any resistance that acts whatsoever. they are places for worshipping only. the palestinians did not quit or give up as their holy places fell, they immediately went to work to construct temporary mosques and places for prayer, and whilst these hastily built sanctities provided little protection from the weather, it brought the people together for each call to prayer. we set up structures to pray under while the rainfall was dripping on us, praise the lord that we are steadfast and that we will survive on this soil, no matter what the zin is to, we will prevail and reform. area that was designated

to be a park, we use material from greenhouses to build the mosk and لازم نعمل مسجد اللي نقدر نصلي الصلوات في يعني ايش تاديه الفريضه لله سبحانه وتعالى. we decided to build the makeshift mosk because people here are devoted to their religion. we agreed we should build the mosk to perform rituals of the lord and decided to make the mosk out of material from greenhouses. we can see those two where people used to fill the mosks before it was targeted. now there are barely three lines in this small mosk. the houses of most of the neighbors were reduced to rubble and they left the area to rent elsewhere.

27% of mosks along the gaza strip are either completely or partially damaged, it is their intention to subjugate the arab and muslim people. it is also to pave the way for the tearing down of the sacred al-axamosk to be replaced by a jewish temple. it's like they're telling people not to be shocked if the alaxa mosk is destroyed, just like any other mosk that was destroyed in the gaza war. that's what they want, but ala is different. if it was destroyed all muslims around the world under god's will, would reign down on israel, but the lord will protect it with all its might. اني ممتكم بارش من الملائكه موادي

وما جعله الله الا بشرى ولتطمئن في the palestinian people believe that the lord protects his house, they believe that the mosks and indeed islam will eternally prevail despite all efforts by its enemies to destroy them.

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