Quranic Centers Serve as Protection

CROSSFIREARABIA – The Children of Gaza found the Quranic Memorization Centers a place of learning during the summer holidays. These centers relieve them from the emptiness they are facing as hundreds of thousands of them have been displaced with their parents and live in tents and/or UNRWA schools. Above all these centers are serving as places of protection from constant Israeli raids and bombs that continue on different parts of the Gaza Strip. In one of the Quranic Memorization Centers in Dier Al Balah tens of children sit facing each other in different circles repeating in one voice Quranic verses. The centers are aimed to return then back to their “natural life” which they lost during the war that was launched on them after 7 October, 2023. “My sons have found a place to be in and to spend time as school stopped for the summer,” said Umm Ahmad Al Najjar. These is why she quickly enrolled them in such a center.

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Women Mourn Their Dead

Two Palestinians, including a woman, were killed and seven others injured on Saturday in an Israeli drone strike targeting two displacement tents west of Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip, in the latest reported violation of a ceasefire in place since October 2025. Islam Hassan Abu Shamala, a Palestinian woman, was among those killed in the strike, while seven others were injured, medical sources told Anadolu. Witnesses said an Israeli drone struck two adjacent tents on Al-Rashid Street near the entrance to Roni Street in the Al-Mawasi area west of Khan Younis. They added that the strike destroyed both tents, damaged nearby shelters, and caused multiple casualties in the area.

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Israel Prevents The Athan in Al Ibrahimi Mosque

CROSSFIREARABIA – The Israeli occupation has banned the Muslim call of prayer (Athan) in the Al Ibrahimi Mosque in Hebron now for the last eight days according to Hafthi Abu Sneini, former director of the compound. He said this measure is part of a policy of restrictions the Israeli occupation is imposing on the mosque and those who go and pray there. Abu Sneini added the Israelis impose total control since the keys to the mosque are their hands and they control the Athan room. He pointed out the Israelis are preventing the director and the “caretakers” of the mosque from entering the mosque for 12 days to prevent what they are documenting they “Judization” process they are imposing on the Islamic compound.    

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