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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 1,000 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, 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

zaittoon in gaza city, for example, you can see the katib al-wilayah 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 in their. 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 indiscriminantly, killing men, women and hundreds of children, and displacing 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 fliers from their planes asking us to leave, but we refused up until yesterday and the day before. all of baitanon 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. 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 sajaiya and zeitun, we are in zaittoon, and so many people from betlaha, betkhanun and which they are supposed to leave their places, because it was hitting 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 be baby on his hands or her hands, you cannot close your eyes, you hard speak and you have to apply, so this is the 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 prayer. during the ramadan time, so this it was very difficult time for the people, it was the holy day of al-qadr, which they call it in arabic, which suppose these people to pray during the night time, so the

church respect everybody, so what we have done, we get give 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 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 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 debrie. raining down on the heads of innocent worshipers. the israeli occupation reduced 74 masks 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 al-nussierat of middle governorat. 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 residence. the occupation army contacted us on saturday august, the officer informed him that we have five minutes to evacuate as they are intending to target mask. the officer hung up and my husband rushed to inform the

neighbors. to inform me the most was going to be bombed. four young men were back there getting themselves ready for prayer. طلعت انا ما توقعت كيف طلعت احنا 13 نفر فجوزي ما عمل فوضه كثير. mosk 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 دقائقوا المسجد. 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 mosk, but four young men were inside and i had no idea what

happened to them. وفي الساعات الاولى من الصباح الاول للقصف. in the early morning hours following the bombardment, two bodies were retrieved, while the third, the body of my son zordi remained somewhere under the rubble, they searched for three days with an excavation. وتوقف البحث بعد ذلك ما يقارب ال60 يوم رجع البحث مره اخرى the young man here two of them were recovered was baiting here.

but ended up landing in abuzir 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 us provided f16 war jets, the raid resulted in the destruction of residential homes

surrounding the mosk and caused the fall of marters, and many injuries amongst the families residing in that neighborhood. the enemy targeted this mosk in its recent aggression, like they did to the other mosks in 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, يضربوا صارخانه طلعنا على طول على البلكونات على الشبابيك الواحد يعني شوف ايش

اللي موجود او ايش اللي فيه. 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 risk. it was. 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 were sleeping woke up.

i 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 crew. 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. لان الصوارix اجت فجاه يعني وراء بعضها. قصف هذا المسجد اثنين صواريخ. vacuum missiles as they

call them, the f-16 rate was the reason for the collapse of the minaret on the rud one family's home,خ الف 16 هي كانت السبب في نزول او سقوط المئذنه على بيت الرضوان لما وقعت المئدن, the tip of the minaret that collapsed onto the house weigh 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 miner at broke three to four roofs due to. يعني من الثقل تبعها كان في هناك شهراء من جراء القصف رجل مسسن تاثر من القصف there were some marters as result of the bombardment, an old man died and a pregnant woman from the rudwan family died, امراه من ال رضوان كانت حامل بمولود، طبعا توفى من جراء القصف. مره اخويا محمد كانت

ست شهور على. my sister-in-law was six months pregnant, she miscaried on the spot due to the exploit. 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. 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 shock 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. توجهنا الى منطقه القصف واذ بالقصف في الارض الخاليه المصلى عليه. the town of huza in the south with a population of 9 suffered immense damage after it was heavily bombarded for three days by the... 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, israely 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 the... sabotaged the infrastructure and the structures, the whole electricity network in adam neighborhood and 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 mosks, 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 greats 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 han, 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 targetted 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 bear. i have a great. only knows, the mosk is my whole life, as i attended the 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. we at the ministry. we challenge 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. 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 greenhouses to build them. لازم نعمل مسجد اللي نقدر نصلي الصلوات فيه يعني ايش تاديه الفريضه لله سبحانه وتعالى فقمنا ببناء we decided to build the 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 most out of material from greenhouses. you can see those two where people used to fill the mosks before. was targeted, now there are barely three lines in this small mask, the houses of most of the neighbors were reduced to rubble and they left the area to rental. معظم جن المسجد اللي

تهدمت دورها. كلهم راحلوا من البلد وفي تاجروا في مناطق ثانيه. الااحتلال يقصد من كثره استسته. 27% of mosks along the gaza strip are either completely or partially damaged, it is their intent. it's like god's they're telling people not to be shocked if the mosk is destroyed just like any other mosk that was destroyed in the ghaza war. that's what they want. is different if it was destroyed all muslims around the world under will reign down on israel, but the lord will protect it with. ان تستغيثون ربكم فاستجاب

له اني ممتكم بالالف من الملائكه موض في ومن لعل الله الا بشرى ولتطمئن به ضلوقم ومن النصر الاه من عين الله. 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.

je pense qu'ils vont poser là-haut, faut qu'on se décale, اطفاله من تحت الرادم واش نشرحها. ما تعرف غير المحبه بس وين اهلها ويا ربي من عال السما نزلنا حللها ملينا من هاي الدنيا وجيناك للباب يا ربي الارباب لا حول ولا قوه الا الله

الله اكبر الله اكبر ولله الحمد كتائب الشهيد عز الدين القسام تعلن اثرها لجندي صهيون. في كل عمليه اسرائيليه تاريخيا ومتابعتنا لهذا التاريخ ان تضرب الاعلام في لحظاته الاولى وبالتالي تصنع هنا القلق على الاقل وتصنع.

an angel. the headlines, the world health organization warns of a real catastrophe in gaza as this regime continues this bloody onslot against the besieg territory. you want mores of preamptive measures by the resistance fronts of israeli crimes in the gaza strip continue and the hamas resistance movement says it is not intimidated by israel's ground invasion threat warning the gaza will turn into a graveyard for its invaders.