tv Documentary PRESSTV October 17, 2023 3:02pm-3:30pm IRST
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the islamic call to prayer reverberates from mosks throughout the city of gaza. five of 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 attempt. 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, supposed to have love, there is a striking image, which is evident in almost every palestinian city, in the neighborhood
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of zeiton in gaza city, for example, you can see the katib alwisayah 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 festivity. we all share
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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, نحن نصارى ومسلمين نحن متاخون. 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. who were forced to
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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 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 to leave, 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 sajaya and zeitun, we are in zitoon, and so many people from batya, bethan and sajaiya, which they are supposed على to leave their places, because it was hitting their places from the tongue. so they run to
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find a safe place, safe place, it is the most or the church, young father or young woman 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 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... 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
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time, so the church respect everybody, so what 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. 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
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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 did 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 raigning 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
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algasan mosque 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 residents. the occupation army contacted us on saturday august the 8. caller introduced himself as officer musa asking whether this was yahya attawil'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 al-qassam mosk. the officer hung up and my husband rush to inform
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the neighbors. my mobile phone rank, neighbors called to inform me the most was going to be bombed. four young men were back there getting themselves ready for prayer inside the most. طلعت انا ما توقعت كيف طلعت احنا 13 نفر فجوزي ما عمل فوضه كثير. we dressed and went to my brother-in-law's house in this tower. the mosque was hit 3 minutes later. بعد يعني كمان ثلاث دقائق قصفوا المسجد. شرط كمان يعني ابو ا 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 in sight and i had no idea what happened
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to them. 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 3 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 sold his body then العثور عليه وتوقف البحث بعد ذلك وبعد ما يقارب ال60 يوم رجع البحث مره اخرى وهو بيشتغل
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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. f-16 war jets. the raid resulted in the destruction of residential homes surrounding
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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 gaza strip. 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 mosk, as that was the way the israeli occupation worked with unmanned drone missiles firing first, ويضربوا صارخانه طلعنا على طول على البلكونات على الشبابيك الواحد يعني شوف ايش اللي موجود او ايش اللي فيه we
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went to the balconies and windows immediately to see what was going on, we didn't know the damask was the target and the missals 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 indescribable. مش قادر الواحد ساعه رعب يعني وساعه ما فيش لها وصف فهن 50, 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
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building, تهنا من بعض, انا في ثلاثه من اولادي ضاعوا مني واضطريت ارجع. we were separated from each other, 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. in my food, back and head, and my brother was injured too, we were running, but we couldn't run far, came down so fast as we were following one another نبعد لانه الصواريخ فجاه يعني ورا بعضها قصف هذا المسجد اثنين صواريخ كما يقولون
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followed by two f16 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.16 هي كانت السبب في نزول او سقوط المئذنه على بيت الرضوان لما وقعت المئذنه البيت the tip of the minaret that collapsed onto the house way 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 its heavy weight. اربع زقوف كسرت يعني من من الثقل تبعها كان في هناك شهداء من جراء القصف رجل مسسن تاثر من القصف there were some marters as a result of the bombardment an old man died and a pregnant woman from the rudwan family died also امراه من ال رضوان كانت حامل بمولود طبعا توفى من جراء القصف مره اخويا محمد كانت my
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sister-in-law was six months pregnant she miscarried on the spot due to the explosion. they sprayed missiles over the palestinian people to the extent that schrapnel, sand and small stones reached as far as 500 meters. الشضايا الرمال الحصو الصغير. there were 20 to 30 injuries by people in nearby houses due to the impact of stones and glass flying. al-sosi worshipers refused to be distracted from performing their prayers near. 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, we started
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preparing a makeshift mosk the very next day, an organization provided us with a shading to finish it, we were shocked the next to be hit by another bombardment targeting the area, we rushed to the area to find they targetted the exact spot we were preparing to build most توجهنا الى منطقه القصفف واذ بالقصف في الارض الخاليه التي كنا نقامه the town of huza in the south with a 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 arrahman. after the annihilation, israeli forces beseeg the town for 10 days, cutting it off from the outside world. a red cross worker described
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the scene as a tsunami of death, unfortunately they sab 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, mosks. 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 han,
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important to muslims worldwide and renovated by a malaysian islamic organization in 2000. 13 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 bear. i have a great affection for this. the israeli occupation demonstrates its hatred on houses of the lord, destroyed mosks
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were found to have no weapons or resistance in them. we at the ministry of. provise 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 zints do, we will prevail and reform. this
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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 the mosk and we عملنا المسجد وهنا بنصلي فيه ناس ملتزمين بالدين فقولنا لازم نعمل مسجد اللي نقدر نصلي الصلوات في يعني ايش تاديه الفريضه لله سبحانه وتعالى 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 it was targeted. are barely three lines in this small most, the houses of most the neighbors were reduced to rubble and they left the area to rent elsewhere. معظم جرران المسجد اللي تهدمت دورها. كلهم راحلوا من البلد
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وفياخذوا تاجروا في مناطق. israelis target palestinian mosks repeatedly. 27% of moss along the ghaza strip are either completely or partially damaged. it is their intention to subjugate. 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 mosk is destroyed just like any other mosk that was destroyed in the ghaza war. that's what they want. but al-axa is different. if it was destroyed all muslims around the world under god's will, would rain down on israel, but the lord will protect it with all its might. ان تستعيذون ربكم فاتجعد له اني ممتكم
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northern gaza strip town of bait. noon, the israelis rounded them up and killed 16 of them where they stood, mostly children, and wounded more than 55 others. the children were playing in the street, some were playing on the swings. we were surprised by the explosion, but when we turned round we saw the children had become shreds of flesh laying in the street, some were injured and some others were dead. my uncle shaban, jamal and muhammad were among those who died. every child of palestine now carries with them memories of explosions, of screams of horror by the inhumane, unconchionable actions of israel.
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iran's leader calls for the trial of israeli officials warning that if the regime's crimes against palestinians continue, no one can stop muslims and the resistance forces. the world health organization warns of the real catastrophe in gaza as the israel regime continues its bloody on. plot on the vasige territory, and the hamos resistant movement says it's not ended by israel's ground invasion threats, warning that gaza will turn into a graveyard for invaders.
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