Islamic call to prayer reverberates from mosks throughout the city of gaza. Five prayer times each and every day summon allahs faithful servants. Since the period of the first interfada in the year 2000, religious awakening has grown dramatically in من 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 musks 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. The neighborhood of zaiton 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 are living in a very good relationship, very close relationship, because we are living as family, we participate together, christians and muslims in their festivities. 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 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 flames 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 f16s in the sky and tanks on the ground. We waited until daylight to leave while 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 sajaiya of and zeitoon, we are in zeitoon, and so many people from betlaha, betkhanun and which they were 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 churches. 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 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 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 alnussierat of middle governorat. They were killed while waiting for the dawn Prayer Service to begin. 4 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 minerett. 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 attawils house. My husband answered in the affirmative, 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. 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 عملش فوضه كثير 13 people quietly targeted we dressed and went to my brotherinlaws house in this tower the mosk was hit 3 minutes later بعد يعني كمان ثلاث دقائقوا 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. 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 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 sonys body then كبير جدا 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 whom was waiting here while another was hiding the entire pulpit flew into the house, the electrical generator was this side, but ended up landing. In abuziar familys 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 israels us provider. 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 gaza strip. المساجد في قطاع غزه حوالي الساعه اثنين وطول on july 30th they hit the mosk 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 didnt know that the mask was the target and the missals hit the water tankers, they fired another missals 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 cant 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. من اولادي مني واضطريت ارجع. We were separated from each other, lost three of my kids and had to go back to search for them. We werent 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 shrapnel in my food, back and head, and my brother was injured too. We were running, but we couldnt run far, because came down so fast as we were following one another. نبعد لانه الصورريخ اجت فجاه يعني ورا بعضها. قصف هذا المسجد، اثنين صواريخ كما يقولون. Drone missiles followed by two f16 vacuum missiles as they call them, the f16 rate was the reason for the collapse the minaret on the rud one familys home. كانت السبب في نزول او سقوط المئذنه على بيت رضوان لما وقعت المئذنه على البيت the tip of the minaret that collapsed onto the house waid 10 tons, it flew about. Eight meters onto the roof. It was allahs mercy that prevented it from falling on the neighbors, otherwise none of them would have survived. The main body of the minerett broke three to four roofs due to its heavy weight. يعني من الثقل تبعها كان في هناك شهداء من جراء القصف رجل مسن there were some marters as a result 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 مراه اخويا محمد كانت حامل سته my sisterinlaw was six months pregnant, she miscarried 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 يوجد بعض الاصابات مش اقل من 20. There were 20 to 30 injuries by people in nearby houses due to the impact of stones and glass flying. Worshippers 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 targeted the exact spot we were preparing to build a makeshipt. توجهنا الى منطقه القصف. واذ بالقصف في الارض الخاليه التي كنا نوqaمه. The town of huza in the south 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 arrahman. 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 sabotaged the infra. 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 dont know why theyre 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 han, important to muslims worldwide and renovated by a malaysian Islamic Organization in 2003. 13 was bombed to smitherines 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 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 most. 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. 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 zionits do, we will prevail and reform. This mosk was built by residents of the neighborhood and from other goodoers. We built a mosk inside the refugee camp in area that was designated to be a park. We use material from green houses to build the mosk and we pray that. عملنا المسجد وهنا بنصلي فيه ناس ملتزمين بالدين فقول لنا لازم نعمل مسجد اللي نقدر نصلي الصلوات في يعني ايش تاديه الفريضه لله سبحانه وتعالى فقمنا we decided to buil 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 mosk out of material from greenhouses, 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 mask. The houses of most of the neighbors were reduced to rubble and they left the area to rent elsewhere. معظم جرى المسجد اللي تهدمت دورها. كلهم راحلوا البلد وفياخدوا. Israelis target palestinian mosks repeatedly. 27 of mosks along the ghaza 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 alaxamosk to be replaced by a jewish temple. Its like theyre telling people not to be shocked if the mosque is destroyed just like any other mosk that was destroyed in the gaza war. Thats what they want. But alaxa is different. If it was destroyed all muslims around the world under gods will, would reign down on israel, but the lord will protect it with all its might. ان تستغيثون ربكم فاتجاب له اني ممدتكم بالارف من الملائته. وما جعله الله الا ادرى ولتطمئن به بلوهم ومن تقطع الاه من عند الله 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. وهيك علمنا الياسين هيك علمنا الياسين حمل المصحفاء امشوا يا شبابيه الله الله اكبر الله. 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 thats more at easy. 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 use to tarnish the Palestinian Community and depict palestinians as terrorists. The deadsol from israels aggression against the gaza strip rises to nearly 3,000 with 1,000 children among them. Irans leader calls for the trial of israeli officials, warning that in case the regimes crimes against palestinians go on, no. One would be able to stop muslims and resistance forces. Two israel soldiers are reportedly killed and several more injured in the latest retalitory attack by labanons hezbollah fighters