Gaza Prayers

Video Description

• People gathering for prayer.
• Friday prayers being performed.
• Damaged mosque after Israeli attack.
• Various of people gathered.
• Voxpops.
• People sitting on the damaged mosques.
• Imam giving the sermons.
• Mosque’s imam Mohammad Bakheeth SOT
• People walking past the damaged.

Rushed Transcript:

Amidst the destruction of Israel’s war… a moment of peaceful prayer…

Where a mosque once stood tall, worshippers kneel before god surrounded by rubble…

This is what is left of the Nour al Mohammed mosque on the outskirts of Gaza City,
A house of God for Muslims…became a target for the Israeli military…

This Friday, two weeks into the Israeli assault, the faithful were undeterred …this weeks prayer had an added meaning.

VOX POPS x 2

“This prayer is obligatory for Us Mulims and if the Israelis want to deny it to us, we will despite the bombings, we will and worship god here” // God only strengthens our conviction after these attacks

During the war on the Gaza Strip, no inch has been spared; nearly 13 mosques have been destroyed by the Israeli military who allege the mosques been used as “terrorist havens”…

As worshippers flocked, the Mosque’s imam delivered his message to followers and to those following developments in Gaza….

IMAM SOT To the people around the world and in Arab and Muslim countries, I say your silence allows for this aggression to continue…

and to those praying here, I say, this is our mosque and will pray here till judgment day and we will rebuild this mosque even bigger…

Abu Mohammed usually doesn’t pray here, but when he fled his neighborhood a week ago and joined his daughter’s family nearby, he was moved by a sense of purpose to pray at the Mohammed mosque…