the azon, the islamic call to prayer, reverberates from mosks 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, religious 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. 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, samah, 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 zeiton in gaza city, for example, you can see the katib alwilayah mosk, situated next to the roman orthodox church, the church of porphery. this living example witnessed 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 we are living in a very good relationship, very close relationship, because we are living as family, we participate together, christians and muslims. 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 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 placing thousands of ordinary citizens

who were forced to seek asylum to 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 planes asking us to leave, but we refused up until yesterday and the day before. all of hannun was flaring under phosphorus bombs, emitting poisonous gas and the f-16's in the sky and tanks on the ground. we waited until daylight هذا to leave while our house was destroyed. grance 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 say and zaitton, we are in zaitoon, and so many people from betlakya, betkhamun and sajaiya, which they are supposed to leave their places, because it was hit. 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. and carrying baby on his hands or her 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 you 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

suppose this people to pray during the night time, so the church respect everybody, so what have? and we gave to them all the the freedom, all the permission to pray down in the yard of the church without no comments. tragedy unites 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 hammas 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 ghaza 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 debri raining down on the heads of innocent worshipers. the israeli 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 algas mosk in al-nusierat of middle governor it. they were killed while waiting for the dawn prayer service to begin. 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 minarette. the claim that mosks were being used to harbor weapons and tunnels is unproven and denied by local residents. the occupation army contacted us my husband answered in the affirmative, the officer informed him that we have five minutes to evacuate as they are intending to target al-qassam mosk. the officer hung up and my

husband rushed to inform the neighbors. neighbors called to inform me the most was going to be bombed. four young men were back there getting. was going to be targeted. we dressed and went to my brother-in-law's house in this tower. the mosk was hit three minutes later. بعد يعني كمان ثلاث دقائق المسجل. i was escaping when just 30 to 40 meters 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, i told them i was outside the mask, but four young men

were inside and i had no idea what happened to them, وفي الساعات الاولى من الصبح in the early morning hours following the bombardment, two bodies were retrieved, while the third, the body of my son remained somewhere under the rubble, they searched. 3 days with an excavator, but found nothing, the search was called off, but resumed again after 60 days, the excavator operator came across, في مكان كبير جدا اللي هو بتسمى الباقر ولم يتم العثور عليه وتوقف البحث بعد ذلك ما يقارب ال60 يوم رجع البحث مره اخرى وهو بيشتغل, somewhere else, this means the young man were here, two of them were recovered, one of him. was waiting here while another was hiding in the corner, we found him in this corner a

month and a half later, يعني باقي لابد فيها بعد لقيناها في القررن هذا بالضبط كل الشقق اللي تحت تضررت. while the barrier between us and the mosk was removed. our home and the shop sustained a great deal of damage. تضرنا. was this site, but ended up landing in abuzier 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 kg electrical generator flew to the shop, also mosk 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 martyrs and many injuries amongst the families residing in that neighborhood. the enemy targeted this mosk in its recent aggression like the... 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 mosk, as that was the way the israeli occupation worked with unmanned drone missiles firing first. شيء ما لازم ان يضربوا صارخانه طلعنا على طول على البلكونات على

الشبابيك الواحد يعني شوف ايش اللي موجود او ايش اللي فيه. we went to the balconies and windows immediately to see what was going on. we didn't know that the damask was the target and the misas hit the water tankers. they fired another missiles 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. 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, 'who was 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, المهم نزلنا من بعض, انا في ثلاثه من اولادي ضاعوا مني واضطريت ارجع, we were 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 raced around, i 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 foot, back and head, and my brother was injured too. we were running, but we couldn't run far, because the missals came down so fast as we were following one another, نبعد لان الصواريخ اجت فجاه يعني وراء بعضها. قصف المسجد اثنين س

ضربه صواريخ الف 16 هي كانت السبب في نزول او سقوط المئذنه على بيت الرضوان لما وقعت الميددان على البيت طبعا 10 tons, it flew about 8 m 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 minerat broke three to four. يعني من من الثقل تبعها كان في هناك شهراء من جراء القصف رجل مسسن تاثر من القصف. امراه من ال رضوان كانت حامل بمولود، طبعا توفى من جراء القصف، مراه اخويا محمد كانت

حامل ست شهور على. on the spot due to the explosion, they sprayed missiles over the palestinian people to the extent that shopnel, sand and small stones الشضايا الرمال الحصو الصغير يوجد بعض الاصابات مش اقل من 20. there were 20 to 30 injuries suffered by people in nearby houses due to the impact of stones and glass flying. 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 ship. with the population of 9,000 suffered immense damage after it was heavily bombarded for three 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. after 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 sabotaged the infrastructure and the structures. the whole electricity network in atlanjar neighborhood and entire city in jozar 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 asks. we don't know why they're doing this to masks. they target people, masks, houses and everything around the mosk, all surrounding houses were destroyed. i live next to the mosk, but no one passes by or greets me now. i am so affected by this. 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 smither reans 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 the 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 be. 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 mosk. the israeli occupation demonstrates its hatred on

houses of the lord, destroyed mosks were found to have no weapons or resistance in them. 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 mosks. 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

ziners to, we will prevail and reform. this mosk was built by residents of the neighborhood and from other goodoers, we built a most inside the refugee camp an area that was designated to be a park. we use material from greenhouse. مسجد اللي نقدر نصلي الصلوات فيه يعني ايش تاديه الفريضه لله سبحانه وتعالى فقمنا we decided to build a makeshift mosk because people here are devoted to their religion, we agreed we should build the most to perform rituals of the lord and decided to make the mask out of material from greenhouses, you can see those two where people used to fill the mask.

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 al-axa mosk is destroyed just like any other mosk that was destroyed in the gaza war. that's what they want. but al-axa is different. if it was destroyed all muslims around the world under god's will reign down on israel, but the lord will protect. ان تستغيثون ربكم فاستجابدوا اني ممتكم

بالارف من الملائكه مورد. ومن جعله الله بشرى ولتطمئن به قلوهم ومن النصر الا من عند الله. 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. بس يا امجودي بس بسيط, art is the title to describe the beauty or language used to translate its emotions and feelings resulting in aesthetic values

interacting with all the people despite the different tongues and colors. everyone that sees the smoke envisages destroyed home with dead people and devastated lives. in its place, however, i try to bring this place back to life in my own way where i can change the image of destruction into an image that's more at ease to the sensitivities of people, every artwork presents a valuable theme and truth about palestine in a beautiful and civilized way. i think the israelis oppose this as they search for any image that they can. used to tarnish the palestinian community and depict palestinians as terrorists.

the world health organization warn a real catastrophe in gazas israel regime continues a bloody onsight against the besetory. iran warns if israel's ongoing crimes in the gazas should continue any preemptive uh measure by the resistance front is possible in the coming hours.