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 من years later in 2014 show that this number has now doubled to nearly 1,000 mosks which are attend. 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 zaitoon 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 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

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 indiscriminately, 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 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 shajaya and zeitoon, we are in zeitoon, and so many people from betlaha, betkhanun 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 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 church. 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 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 efforts to spoil this rising affinity and sympathy under the false pretext that they observe. 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 debrie raigning down on 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

algasan mosk in al-nusierat 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 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. 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 mask. the officer hung up and my husband rushed to inform the neighbors. was going to be bombed. four young

men were back there getting themselves ready for prayer inside the most. بعد يعني كمان ثلاث دقائق قصف المسجد شرط كمان يعني ابو ا 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, tell 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 الصباح الاول للقصف بعد 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 sony's body then كبير جدا بتسمى الباقر ولم يتم العثور عليه وتوقف البحث بعد ذلك وبعد ما يقارب ال60 يوم رجع البحث مره اخرى وهو بيشتغل here two of them were recovered one of him was waiting here while another was hiding

in abuziar family's grocery shop. can you see this repair shop where the electrical generation ented? 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 provider. f-16 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 gaza strips. المساجد في قطاع غزه حوالي الساعه اثنين وطول 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 most as that was the way the israeli occupation worked with unmanned drone missiles firing first. to see what was going

on, we didn't know that the damask was the target and the missals hit the water tankers, they fired another misals 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. 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 alarmed. we had to look after the elderly members and those who needed to be carried, bottom line, we all left the building. we were separated from

each other, 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 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 i 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 came down so fast as we were following one another.خت فجاه يعني ورا بعضها. قصف هذا المسجد، اثنين صواريخ كما يقولون.

كانت السبب في نزول او سقوط المئذنه على بيت الرضوان لما وقعت المئذنه على البيت 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 minerat 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 مسن تاثر there were some marters as a result of the bombardment an old man died and a pregnant woman from the rudwan family died also من ال رضوان كانت حامل بمولود طبعا توفى من جراء القصف مره اخويا محمد كانت

حامل my sister-in-law was six months pregnant she miscaried on the spot due to the explosion. sprayed missiles over the palestinian people to the extent that schrapnel, sand and small stones reached as far as 500 meters. الرمال الحصو الصغير. there were 20 to 30 injuries suffered 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 the most. 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 preparing a makeshift mosk the very next day, an organization provided us with a shading to finish it, we were shocked the next night. hit by another bombardment targeting the area, we rushed to the area to find they targetted the exact spot we were preparing to build a makeshift توجهنا الى منطقه القصف واذ بالقصف في الارض الخاليه التي نود. 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 ar-rahman. after the annihilation, israeli forces beseeg 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 inf. structure 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 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, important to muslims

worldwide and renovated by a malaysian islamic organization in 20. 2013 was bombed to smith marines 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 mask 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 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. بنظف المسجد. حياتنا كلها في المسجد نحن. الااحتلال الاسرائيلي يفرغ حقده. 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 wack supervised the masks, 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 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 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 do, we will prevail and reform. هذا المسجد نحناه يعني of the neighborhood and from other goodoers, we built a most inside the refugee camp an area that was لازم نعمل مسجد اللي نقدر نصلي الصلوات فيه يعني ايش تاديه الفريضه سبحانه وتعالى فقمنا we decided to build a makeshift 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 green houses. you 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. كلهم رحلوا البلد وفياخذوا تاجروا في مناطق ثانيه. الااحتلال يقصد. israelis target palestinian mosks repeatedly, 27% of mosks along the... 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 al-axa mosk is destroyed, just like any other mosk that was destroyed in the ghaza war. that's what they want, but al-aksa is different if it was destroyed all muslims around the world under god.

ومن جعل الله الا بشرى ولتطمئن به بلوكم ومن المضول الله من ال 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. الله اكبر ولله الحمد كتائب الشهيد عز الدين القسام تعلن اسرها لجندي صهيون palestinian journalists continued to deliver audio and video reports during the war. في كل عمليه اسرائيليه تاريخيا ومتابعتنا لهذا التاريخ ان

تضرب الاعلام في لحظاته الاولى وبالتالي تصنع هنا القلق على الاقل وتصنع this is the area where i was targeted and in an open air prison where 2.2 million people live, almost half of whom are children. now i'm going to take you live some uh developing story very distratful uh we

have live images coming out of. iran, multiple cities have people pouring out and condemning in the strongest terms possible, a uh missile strike that just take place and occupied uh gaza strip, the besieg gaza trip, i should say and occupied, where over 500 people have been killed at hospital, the israeli regime has been dropping bombs and missiles for the last uh 10 or 11 days on the besieged enclave, wiping out huge scores of the civilian population there, but this is the biggest loss of civilian life in one fail swoop in the last five wars on gaza, over 500 civilians have been killed in one israeli missile strike a hospital there in uh the

besige gaza strip. this includes medical workers, women, children, the elderly, the sick as well as many that took refuge because - many gazans have been trying to flee indiscriminate bombings by the israeli regime in one of the safest places they thought was to hold up in a uh area hospital, local hospital, and this is the fate of depending on relying a hospital for refuge, so the sick those we're 500 right now is the count uh the health ministry in the gaza strip says the hundreds of victims are trapped under the ruble this is the al-ahli arabi hospital and the besieg gaza strip this thousands of civilians are seeking medical treatment since

movement has strongly condemned this attack saying israel is committing genocide in every sense. this is a word we heard lot over the last uh 10 or 11 days that regimes raise also killed 107 palestinians in rafa and khans and the southern gazo strip so civilian casualties are mounting everywhere throughout the besieg gaza strip but this hospital is an unprecedented attack on the civilian infrastructure there in gaza, hospital by the name and over 500 casualties, now this uh, the un human rights chief said, this deadly strike on this hospital on the gaza strip is totally unacceptable, he said words fail me tonight,