“Al-Omari Grand Mosque, the largest and oldest mosque in the Gaza Strip, was extensively destroyed in Israeli attacks,” the sources told Xinhua.
The Omari Mosque was founded more than 1,400 years ago with an area of about 4,100 square meters. Its minaret was destroyed in Israeli artillery attacks three weeks ago.
Palestinian Resistance Movement Hamas condemned the Israeli attacks targeting an “important historical monument and a religious landmark in Gaza City.”
It noted that the Israeli military has so far destroyed 104 mosques and three churches across the Gaza Strip.
Atid Abu Seif, Palestinian culture minister, said that Israel’s attacks destroyed most parts of the old city of Gaza City, including historical buildings, mosques, museums, and archaeological sites.
The Zionist regime waged its war on Gaza on October 7 after Hamas launched an operation against the occupied territories on that day in response to the Israeli regime’s decades-long campaign of bloodletting and devastation against Palestinians.
Tel Aviv also blocked water, food, and electricity to Gaza, plunging the coastal strip into a humanitarian crisis.
More than 17,000 Palestinians, most of them women and children, have been killed in the Israeli strikes.
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