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CROSSFIREARABIA – With confirmed reports of hundreds of mosques destroyed by the Israeli occupation army in Gaza, a female Israeli soldier poses for a picture inside a severally damaged mosque in the war-torn region.
Israeli soldiers destroying a mosque in Gaza! These individuals, claiming to be the indigenous people of the land, are far from it. Someone should look into where they truly come from—or which country issued their second passport. pic.twitter.com/tt6FUIYOu4
The Israeli army is called the “most moral army” in the world, yet the social media images of soldiers desecrating mosque after mosque, shows that Jewish soldiers as the most uncouth and disrespectful.
But you can’t destroy faith. Gazans are considered as the most religious among the Palestinians. Online images abound websites of people praying and listening to the Imam in ramshackle and half-destroyed mosques.
Israeli occupation warplanes completely destroyed Al-Amin Muhammad Mosque in Khan Yunis, southern Gaza Strip. pic.twitter.com/4tPcWg5y7r
Israel began to target and destroy mosques soon after 7 October 2023 when it waged war on the Gaza Strip.
The Israeli army has flattened 814 of Gaza’s 1,245 mosques and severely damaged another 148 during its intensified bombardment, the Ministry of Religious Affairs in Gaza revealed. It further stated that these represent 79% of mosques in the Gaza Strip.
This is what the interior of the Great Omari Mosque in Gaza City once looked like. Israel bombed the mosque months ago, leaving it in ruins. The rubble of the Great Mosque will forever stand as a witness to Israel's barbarism. pic.twitter.com/h5cC3mHeDB
— Jehad Abusalim جهاد أبو سليم (@JehadAbusalim) August 4, 2024
Some of these mosques go back to centuries and are ancient, like the Great Omari Mosque that go back to the seventh century and named after Omar Ibn Al Khatab, Islam’s second caliph, and destroyed on 8 December, 2023. It represented a true symbol of Islamic architecture, culture and religion. But no more.
The destruction of these mosques are heartbreaking stories; it’s as if Israeli warplanes and missiles aim at eradicating Islam from the heart of the people but this will never be so.
No matter how many mosques you destroy, prayers won't stop.
Dr. Marwan Asmar holds a PhD from Leeds University and is a freelance writer specializing on the Middle East. He has worked as a journalist since the early 1990s in Jordan and the Gulf countries, and been widely published, including at Albawaba, Gulf News, Al Ghad, World Press Review and others.
(Crossfirearabia.com) – An Israeli soldier rampages a typical Palestinian house in Gaza and proceeds to take a selfie of himself in different positions while wearing the undergarments of women since made into internal refugees whilst laughing about the fact.
This Israel war on Gaza has become a playground for Israeli soldiers. Thousands of selfies, maybe hundreds of thousands were made by Israeli soldiers going into the leftover of Palestinian houses which they destroyed and wrecked havoc to the belongings of long-chased-away Palestinians.
They would occupy these houses and/or their remains and make themselves comfortable were many of them would then enter the bedrooms and take selfies of themselves whilst trying on the bras, underwear, negligees of women forced to flee their homes under Israeli bombardment from the air and through tanks.
It has been a heartache and deep sorrow for many Palestinians who have been killed on a mass skill and/or who found themselves in makeshift tents as refugees.
Many a time during this war/genocide, the Palestinian resistance would booby-trap these houses and would explode in the faces of these soldiers.
“After losing my leg in the war, I returned to photojournalism not just for work, but because I have loved photography since childhood,” said Palestinian reporter Sami Shahada.
Mr. Shahada lost his leg due to a severe injury he suffered in Nuseirat in central Gaza in April 2024, but he picked up his camera and returned to document the tragic events that have been unfolding in Gaza.
He will not let his disability stop him from working. “It is impossible for me to leave photojournalism, even if I face all these obstacles,” he said.
Ahead of World Press Freedom Day marked annually on 3 May which focuses on the role of media to highlight accountability, justice, equality, and human rights, our UN News correspondent in Gaza spoke with Palestinian journalists, documenting the risks and personal traumas they face reporting from the war-torn enclave.
Since the war began following the 7 October 2023 attack by Hamas on Israel an increasing number of journalists have been killed or injured in Gaza as a humanitarian crisis has engulfed the enclave.
Bearing witness
On one leg, leaning on crutches, Sami Shahada stands behind his camera, wearing his blue press jacket, working amongst the rubble of destruction with colleagues.
“I witnessed all the crimes that happened, and then the moment came when I was a witness to a crime that was perpetrated against me,” he told UN News.
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Sami Shehadeh looks at a video of the moment he was injured in Gaza in April 2024.
“I was a field journalist, carrying a camera in an open area and wearing a helmet and a jacket which identified me as a journalist, yet I was directly targeted.”
That incident marked a turning point in his life. “I did not need help from anyone before, now I need help,” adding that “I have the determination and persistence to overcome this new reality. This is how we journalists must work in Gaza.”
Working the streets
Journalist Mohammed Abu Namous is another of these journalists.
Filming with one of his colleagues in the rubble of a destroyed building in Gaza City he said: “While the world celebrates World Press Freedom Day, Palestinian journalists remember their workplaces which were destroyed in the war.”
“The minimum we need to carry out our journalistic work is electricity and the internet, but many do not have this, so we resort to commercial shops that provide the internet. The streets are now our offices.”
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Palestinian journalist Mohammed Abu Namous and his colleague cover the impact of the war in Gaza.
He believes that Palestinian journalists have been targeted during the Israeli occupation of Gaza and said that media workers must be protected “whether they work in Palestine or elsewhere in the world.”
Voices not silenced by death of loved ones
Journalist Moamen Sharafi said he lost members of his family in an Israeli bombing in northern Gaza, but despite “the many negative impacts on a personal, social, and humanitarian level, professionally nothing has changed.”
He was determined to carry on working, he explained, as he was due to live broadcast from the streets of Gaza City.
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Palestinian journalist, Moamen Sharafi (right,) lost several family members during the current war that started in October 2023.
“We have become more determined to continue our work and uphold our professional values and perform our mission with humanity to the world,” he continued, “in order to convey the reality of what is happening on the ground inside Gaza, specifically the humanitarian situation, and the impact on children, women and the elderly who suffer greatly.”
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