Gaza’s medieval Omari Mosque has been bombed and lowered to rubble.
Al Jazeera Arabic’s Jihad Abu Shanab visited the positioning to see the size of destruction.
“This place of worship has been lowered to ruins by Israeli forces,” he stated.
The mosque dates again to the pre-Islamic interval, standing on the positioning of an historical Philistine temple.
Within the fifth century, a Byzantine church was constructed on the web site, earlier than it was restored by the Ayyubids. In 1260, it was destroyed by the Mongols, after which rebuilt. On the finish of that century, it was destroyed by an earthquake however 300 years later, the Ottomans restored it.
“The Nice Omari Mosque was probably the most outstanding historic and non secular landmarks in Gaza. It used to deal with conventional manuscripts and historical parchments,” Abu Shanab stated. “It had a big library containing many treasured books. There was additionally a Quran recitation yard.”
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