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Palestinian are being exterminated as I'm typing this right now. The oppressor occupation forces are attacking Gaza from air, sea and land. They are targeting civilians and children. Yesterday, the number of people who dies increase to 119, among them 27 children and 11 women and the number will increase as it is still going on. As the rest of us in the world are fighting with covid-19, Palestinian is dealing with much worse distress. This has been going on for too long. Since 1948 to be exact. The least I can do is speak up about this injustice as the western media has been nothing but biased.
"If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of an oppressor. If an elephant has its foot on the tail of a mouse and you say that you are neutral, the mouse will not appreciate your neutrality." - Desmond Tutu
www.instagram.com/tv/COyS1QUqKjb/?igshid=8cjvicgvnlv
UPDATE
twitter.com/jatikhwan/status/1393517009938182145?s=21
“I am just 10. I cant even do anything. I just want to be a doctor or anything that can help my people. I don’t know what to do” - Palestinian girl after her house got bombed
twitter.com/jatikhwan/status/1393547068057088000?s=21
A footage of international news agency building is bomb by the zionist to stop them from reporting the truth. As of now, we only have a western biased media.
UPDATE
The zionist has been warn multiple time. If they don’t stop the bombing. The Briged Al Qassam will send a counterback and thats when the zionist will start playing victim and the bias media will start reporting their biased news.
UPDATE(please watch this one, this will make you understand that it was never a war, it just injustice)
Palestine in heart 💕
#GazaUnderAttack
مكانة المسجد الأقصى في القرآن الكريم
1/ أرضه وما حولها مباركة
﴿وَلِسُلَيمانَ الرّيحَ عاصِفَةً تَجري بِأَمرِهِ إِلَى الأَرضِ الَّتي بارَكنا فيها﴾ [الأنبياء: ٨١]
﴿المَسجِدِ الأَقصَى الَّذي بارَكنا حَولَهُ﴾
[الإسراء: ١]
- بركة دنيوية: من الأشجار والثمار والأنهار.
- بركة دينية: تشد إليه الرحال ويضاعف أجر الصلاة فيه.
2/ أرضه مقدسة ومعظمة
﴿يا قَومِ ادخُلُوا الأَرضَ المُقَدَّسَةَ﴾ [المائدة: ٢١]
أرض أنبياء بني إسرائيل، وقد أَمَّ نبينا ﷺ الأنبياء في المسجد الأقصى ليلة الإسراء.
3/ مسرى نبينا محمد ﷺ
﴿سُبحانَ الَّذي أَسرى بِعَبدِهِ لَيلًا مِنَ المَسجِدِ الحَرامِ إِلَى المَسجِدِ الأَقصَى الَّذي بارَكنا حَولَهُ لِنُرِيَهُ مِن آياتِنا إِنَّهُ هُوَ السَّميعُ البَصيرُ﴾ [الإسراء: ١]
وهي أشرف ليلة له ﷺ، ومن المسجد الأقصى عُرج به إلى السماء.
4/ قبلة المسلمين
{وَما جَعَلنَا القِبلَةَ الَّتي كُنتَ عَلَيها إِلّا لِنَعلَمَ مَن يَتَّبِعُ الرَّسولَ مِمَّن يَنقَلِبُ عَلى عَقِبَيهِ} [البقرة: ١٤٣]
كان النبي ﷺ يصلي نحو بيت المقدس ستة عشر شهرًا أو سبعة عشر شهرًا.
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اللهم انصر اخواننا في فلسطين
اللهم عليك باليهود .. اللهم شتت جمعهم
اللَّهُمَّ إِنَا نَستَودعك المَسجد الأَقصىٰ وَأَهلهُ وَالمُرابِطِينّ هُنّاك.
اللَّهُمَّ لا تَرْفَعْ للصهاينة في القُدْسِ والأقصى رَايَةً، ولا تُحَقِّقْ لَهُم في غَزَّةَ غَايَةً.
اللَّهُمَّ أَغِثْ أهلَ القُدْسِ وأهلَ غَزَّةَ وأهلَ فِلَسْطِينَ.
اللَّهُمَّ اُشْدُدْ أَزْرَهُم، اللَّهُمَّ اُرْبُطْ على قُلُوبِهِم.
اللَّهُمَّ اُنْشُرِ السَّكِينَةَ على قُلُوبِهِم.
اللَّهُمَّ أَنْزِلْ علَيِّهِمُ دِفْئًا وسَلامًا وأمْنًا وأمَانًا.
اللَّهُمَّ تَقَبَّلْ شُهَدَاءَهُم واشْفِ مَرْضَاهُم.
اللَّهُمَّ ارْحَمْ الأُمَهَاتِ الثَّكَالى مِنْهُم والأَرَامِلَ.
اللَّهُمَّ ارْحَمْ شُيوخًا رُكَّعًا وأطفالا رُضَّعًا وشَبابًا سُجَّدًا.
اللَّهُمَّ عَليكَ بالصَّهَايِنَةِ المُعْتَدِينَ وَمَنْ وَالاهُم وسَاعَدَهُم.
اللَّهُمَّ شَتِّتْ شَمْلَهُم وبَدِّدْ قُوَّتهُم وفَرِّقْ جَمْعَهُم.
اللَّهُمَّ أرِنَا فِيهِم ءَاثَارَ وَعَجَائِبَ قُدْرَتِكَ.
اللَّهُمَّ مَزِّقْهُم شَرَّ مُمَزَّقٍ يا رَبَّ العَالمَينَ.
اللَّهُمَّ احْصِهِم عَدَدًا واقْتُلْهُم بَدَدًا وَلا تُغادِرْ مِنْهُم أَحَدًا.
اللَّهُمَّ لا تَرْفَعْ للصهاينة في القدسِ وغَزَّةَ رَايَةً وَلا تُحَقِّقْ لَهُم في فِلَسْطينَ غَايَةً يا رَبَّ العَالمَينَ
Palestine in heart 💕
#GazaUnderAttack
* Al-Aqsa Mosque *
أهمية بيت المقدس
- أن الله تعالى وصفه في القرآن بأنه مبارك، قال تعالى: {سُبْحَانَ الَّذِي أَسْرَىٰ بِعَبْدِهِ لَيْلًا مِّنَ الْمَسْجِدِ الْحَرَامِ إِلَى الْمَسْجِدِ الْأَقْصَى الَّذِي بَارَكْنَا حَوْلَهُ لِنُرِيَهُ مِنْ آيَاتِنَا ۚ إِنَّهُ هُوَ السَّمِيعُ الْبَصِيرُ} (الإسراء:1).
- أن الله تعالى وصفها بأنها مقدسة في قوله تعالى على لسان موسى عليه السلام: {يَا قَوْمِ ادْخُلُوا الْأَرْضَ الْمُقَدَّسَةَ الَّتِي كَتَبَ اللَّهُ لَكُمْ وَلَا تَرْتَدُّوا عَلَىٰ أَدْبَارِكُمْ فَتَنقَلِبُوا خَاسِرِينَ} (المائدة:21).
- فيها المسجد الأقصى والصلاة فيه تعدل مائتين وخمسين صلاة. عن أبي ذر قال: تذاكرنا ونحن عند رسول الله ﷺ أيهما أفضل مسجد رسول الله ﷺ أم بيت المقدس؟ فقال رسول الله ﷺ: «صلاة في مسجدي أفضل من أربع صلوات فيه ولنعم المصلى هو». [رواه الحاكم وصححه الألباني] والصلاة في المسجد النبوي بألف صلاة، فتكون الصلاة فيه بمائتين وخمسين صلاة؛
وأما الحديث المشهور أن الصلاة فيه بخمسمائة صلاة: فضعيف، كما قال الألباني.
- أن الأعور الدجال لا يدخلها لحديث «وإنه سيظهر على الأرض كلها إلا الحرم وبيت المقدس» [رواه أحمد] والدجال يقتله المسيح عيسى بن مريم عليه السلام قريبًا من هناك كما جاء في الحديث: «يقتل ابن مريم الدجال بباب لُدّ» [رواه مسلم].
و"لُدّ": مكان قرب بيت المقدس.
- أن الرسول ﷺ أُسري به من المسجد الحرام إلى المسجد الأقصى، قال تعالى: {سُبْحَانَ الَّذِي أَسْرَىٰ بِعَبْدِهِ لَيْلًا مِّنَ الْمَسْجِدِ الْحَرَامِ إِلَى الْمَسْجِدِ الْأَقْصَى الَّذِي بَارَكْنَا حَوْلَهُ لِنُرِيَهُ مِنْ آيَاتِنَا ۚ إِنَّهُ هُوَ السَّمِيعُ الْبَصِيرُ} (الإسراء:1).
- أنه قبلة المسلمين الأولى، كما جاء عن البراء -رضي الله عنه- أن رسول الله ﷺ صلى إلى بيت المقدس ستة عشر شهرًا أو سبعة عشر شهرًا. [متفق عليه]
- أنه مهبط الوحي وموطن الأنبياء وهذا معلوم مقرر.
- أنه من المساجد التي تشد الرحال إليها، قال النبي ﷺ: «لا تشد الرحال إلا إلى ثلاثة مساجد: المسجد الحرام ومسجد الرسول ﷺ ومسجد الأقصى» [متفق عليه].
فلا يجوز السفر إلى بقعة في الأرض بقصد التعبد فيها إلا هذه المساجد الثلاثة.
- أن الرسول ﷺ أَمَّ الأنبياء في صلاة واحدة في الأقصى، في حديث طويل: «... فحانت الصلاة فأممتهم» [رواه مسلم]
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اللَّهُمَّ إِنَا نَستَودعك المَسجد الأَقصىٰ وَأَهلهُ وَالمُرابِطِينّ هُنّاك.
اللَّهُمَّ لا تَرْفَعْ للصهاينة في القُدْسِ والأقصى رَايَةً، ولا تُحَقِّقْ لَهُم في غَزَّةَ غَايَةً.
اللَّهُمَّ أَغِثْ أهلَ القُدْسِ وأهلَ غَزَّةَ وأهلَ فِلَسْطِينَ.
اللَّهُمَّ اُشْدُدْ أَزْرَهُم، اللَّهُمَّ اُرْبُطْ على قُلُوبِهِم.
اللَّهُمَّ اُنْشُرِ السَّكِينَةَ على قُلُوبِهِم.
اللَّهُمَّ أَنْزِلْ علَيِّهِمُ دِفْئًا وسَلامًا وأمْنًا وأمَانًا.
اللَّهُمَّ تَقَبَّلْ شُهَدَاءَهُم واشْفِ مَرْضَاهُم.
اللَّهُمَّ ارْحَمْ الأُمَهَاتِ الثَّكَالى مِنْهُم والأَرَامِلَ.
اللَّهُمَّ ارْحَمْ شُيوخًا رُكَّعًا وأطفالا رُضَّعًا وشَبابًا سُجَّدًا.
اللَّهُمَّ عَليكَ بالصَّهَايِنَةِ المُعْتَدِينَ وَمَنْ وَالاهُم وسَاعَدَهُم.
اللَّهُمَّ شَتِّتْ شَمْلَهُم وبَدِّدْ قُوَّتهُم وفَرِّقْ جَمْعَهُم.
اللَّهُمَّ أرِنَا فِيهِم ءَاثَارَ وَعَجَائِبَ قُدْرَتِكَ.
اللَّهُمَّ مَزِّقْهُم شَرَّ مُمَزَّقٍ يا رَبَّ العَالمَينَ.
اللَّهُمَّ احْصِهِم عَدَدًا واقْتُلْهُم بَدَدًا وَلا تُغادِرْ مِنْهُم أَحَدًا.
اللَّهُمَّ لا تَرْفَعْ للصهاينة في القدسِ وغَزَّةَ رَايَةً وَلا تُحَقِّقْ لَهُم في فِلَسْطينَ غَايَةً يا رَبَّ العَالمَينَ
Con un attacco di terra senza precedenti, questa notte l’esercito israeliano, comandato dal criminale di guerra Benjamin Netanyahu, ha fatto irruzione armata a Gaza City, occupandola, bombardandola.
L’obiettivo finale: colonizzarla.
Come tutto il resto.
Si sono contati 37 attacchi in meno di 20 minuti, con i rumori delle esplosioni che si sentivano fin davanti alla casa di Netanyahu, dove migliaia di israeliani e parenti si sono riversati per protestare per la sorte degli ostaggi (e solo per quello).
Si parla di 62 morti, ma sono con ogni probabilità molti di più. Quello che si sa è che migliaia di gazawi stanno fuggendo in migliaia alla disperata dalle loro case, le ultime rimaste, in lunghe carovane d’auto o a piedi.
È il punto più estremo della violenza israeliana, la “soluzione finale” di uno Stato genocida che agisce al di fuori di ogni diritto internazionale, addirittura sostenuta e spalleggiata da Stati Uniti e pure dall’Italia.
Di fronte a queste immagini non so come ministri, governo, Presidente del Consiglio, i negazionisti del genocidio, i pavidi, i complici, possano dormire la notte mentre cala l’ultima notte su Gaza.
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9 June 2025
Spaventoso e inaudito quello che è successo.
Stanotte l’esercito israeliano ha fatto irruzione a bordo della Madleen, la nave della Ong Freedom Flotilla destinata a Gaza con a bordo Greta Thunberg, e ha rapito l’equipaggio.
Non arrestato, rapito. Perché questo è accaduto.
Prima uno sciame di droni urticanti sul ponte, poi l’ultimatum, infine l’irruzione armata a bordo degli uomini dell’Idf per bloccare con la forza dodici attivisti decisi simbolicamente a rompere l’assedio di Gaza con carichi umanitari.
Questo è un crimine di guerra, l’ennesimo di una serie infinita e impunita di quel criminale di guerra che risponde al nome di Benjamin Netanyahu, ben al di là di ogni legalità e legittimità internazionale.
Siamo di fronte a un gruppo di banditi liberi di compiere crimini contro l’umanità nel silenzio pavido, complice e inquietante del mondo intero, Italia ed Europa compresi.
Ma cosa deve succedere ancora perché il mondo apra gli occhi?
Siamo vicini e solidali agli eroici attivisti della Flotilla e va fatta ogni pressione affinché siano immediatamente liberati.
La vergogna non basta più. Non è un sentimento sufficiente.
Palestinians swim in the Mediterranean Sea off the coast of Gaza City August 29, 2014, days after a ceasefire was reached. An open-ended ceasefire, mediated by Egypt, took effect on Tuesday evening. It called for an indefinite halt to hostilities, the immediate opening of Gaza's blockaded crossings with Israel and Egypt, and a widening of the territory's fishing zone in the Mediterranean. Photo by Ashraf Amra
Four-year-old Palestinian girl Shayma Al-Masri, who hospital officials said was wounded in an Israeli air strike that killed her mother and two of her siblings, lies on a bed next to her doll as she receives treatment at a hospital in Gaza City July 15, 2014. Israel approved an Egyptian-proposed deal that would halt the week-old Gaza shelling war on Tuesday but the Palestinian territory's dominant Hamas Islamists responded suspiciously, saying they had not been consulted by Cairo. Israel said there had been two cross-border launches overnight that caused no damage, and that it had bombed 25 sites in Gaza. Palestinian medical officials said a 63-year-old man and a 52-year-old woman were killed - bringing the enclave's death toll to more than 182, most of them civilians. Israel says its offensive is intended to halt rocket fire at its cities from the Gaza Strip.. Photo by Ashraf Amra
So endet dieser Ramadan. Ya Allah, erhalte uns die Al Aqsa Moschee und beschütze Palästina 🇵🇸 👐 #alaqsaunderattack #endoframadan #prayforpalestine #dua #ramadan #alaqsamosque #alquds #sheikhjarrah #gaza #freepalestine
Palestinians, who fled their family homes in the northern border town of Beit Lahiya, stay at a United Nations-run school in Gaza City July 14, 2014. Israel appeared to hold off on a threatened escalation of its week-old Gaza Strip barrage on Monday despite balking at Western calls for a ceasefire with an equally defiant Hamas. On Sunday, the Israeli military had warned residents of Beit Lahiya to leave or risk their lives when, after nightfall, it planned to intensify air strikes against suspected Palestinian rocket sites among civilian homes. A U.N. aid agency said around a quarter of Beit Lahiya's 70,000 residents fled, fearing Israeli attacks which, according to Gaza officials, have killed more than 166 people, most of them non-combatants, since the cross-border shelling war began. Israel says its offensive is intended to halt rocket fire at its cities from the Gaza Strip. Photo by Ezz Zanoun
Palestinians celebrate what they said was a victory by Palestinians in Gaza over Israel following a ceasefire, in the West Bank city of Ramallah August 26, 2014. A ceasefire agreement between Israel and the Palestinians aimed at ending their seven-week conflict in Gaza went into effect on Tuesday and joyous Palestinians streamed into the streets of the battered enclave to celebrate. . Photo by Shadi Hatem
- You don't have to be a Muslim to support Palestine
You just have to be human
ليس عليك أن تكون مسلمًا لدعم فلسطين ،
عليك فقط أن تكون إنسانً -
www.youtube.com/watch?v=1LSzer6rJeMالشيخ مشاري راشد _ دعاء
حسبنا الله ونعم الوكيل ...
اللهم آرنا فيهم عجائب قدرتك
اللهم عليك باليهود ومن عاونهم
اللهم أهلك الظالمين بالظالمين
اللهم إنا نستودعك غزه وأهلها،
#Palestine #فلسطين
#غزة #القدس_عاصمة_فلسطين#
#freepalestine #gazaunderattack #gaza #israel
Relatives and friends carry the body of Musa Moamer, a 60-year-old Palestinian man killed in an Israeli air strike along with his father and two other members of his family, during their funeral in southern Gaza Strip city of Rafah on July 14, 2014. Israel kept up its punishing raids on Gaza but held off from a threatened ground incursion as the world intensified efforts to broker a truce. Photo by Eyad Al Baba
Relatives mourn during the funeral of three members of the Moamer family, during their funeral in southern Gaza Strip city of Rafah on July 14, 2014. Israel kept up its punishing raids on Gaza but held off from a threatened ground incursion as the world intensified efforts to broker a truce. Photo by Eyad Al Baba
GAZA Under ATTACK
- You don't have to be a Muslim to support Palestine
You just have to be human
ليس عليك أن تكون مسلمًا لدعم فلسطين ، عليك فقط أن تكون إنسانً -
www.youtube.com/watch?v=45hYUbupLhc
إنا لله وإنا إليه راجعون
اللهم أجرهم في مصيبتهم وأخلف لهم خيرا منها
حسبنا الله ونعم الوكيل ...
اللهم آرنا فيهم عجائب قدرتك
اللهم عليك باليهود ومن عاونهم
اللهم أهلك الظالمين بالظالمين
اللهم إنا نستودعك غزه وأهلها،
#تصميمي
#Palestine #فلسطين
#غزة #القدس_عاصمة_فلسطين#
#freepalestine #gazaunderattack #gaza #israel
°•♡▪︎ Palestine فلسطين ▪︎♡•°
فلسطين في القلب ❤️
You don't have to be a Muslim to support Palestine ,You just have to be human
ليس عليك أن تكون مسلمًا لدعم فلسطين ، عليك فقط أن تكون إنسانًا.
اللهم أنصرهم وثبت اقدامهم،
اللهم كن لهم ناصراً ومعينا.
اللهم سدد رميتهم وأيدهم بنصرك
اللهم اعز الاسلام والمسلمين
#فلسطين #غزة_تحت_القصف
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Palestinians gather around the remains of a house which police said was destroyed in an Israeli air strike in Gaza City July 14, 2014. Israel appeared to hold off on a threatened escalation of its week-old Gaza Strip barrage on Monday despite balking at Western calls for a ceasefire with an equally defiant Hamas. The Gaza Health Ministry said at least 166 Palestinians - among them about 138 civilians, including 30 children - have died during six days of warfare, and more than 1,000 wounded. Israel says its offensive is intended to halt rocket fire at its cities from the Gaza Strip. Photo by Mohammed Asad
Palestinians gather around the remains of a house which police said was destroyed in an Israeli air strike in Gaza City July 14, 2014. Israel appeared to hold off on a threatened escalation of its week-old Gaza Strip barrage on Monday despite balking at Western calls for a ceasefire with an equally defiant Hamas. The Gaza Health Ministry said at least 166 Palestinians - among them about 138 civilians, including 30 children - have died during six days of warfare, and more than 1,000 wounded. Israel says its offensive is intended to halt rocket fire at its cities from the Gaza Strip. Photo by Mohammed Asad
Relatives mourn the death of 3-year-old Palestinian boy Moayad al-Araj, who hospital officials said were killed in an Israeli air strike, during his funeral in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip, July 13, 2014. The deadliest strike was in Gaza City just before midnight (2100 GMT) in the eastern Tuffah district where 18 people were killed in strikes that hit the house of Hamas police chief Tayseer al-Batsh and a mosque, medics said. Photo by Ramadan El-Agha
Palestinians, who fled their homes in the northern border town of Beit Lahiya, walk in the street as they make their way to stay at a United Nations-run school, in the northern Gaza Strip July 14, 2014. Israel appeared to hold off on a threatened escalation of its week-old Gaza Strip barrage on Monday despite balking at Western calls for a ceasefire with an equally defiant Hamas. On Sunday, the Israeli military had warned residents of Beit Lahiya to leave or risk their lives when, after nightfall, it planned to intensify air strikes against suspected Palestinian rocket sites among civilian homes. A U.N. aid agency said around a quarter of Beit Lahiya's 70,000 residents fled, fearing Israeli attacks which, according to Gaza officials, have killed more than 166 people, most of them non-combatants, since the cross-border shelling war began. Israel says its offensive is intended to halt rocket fire at its cities from the Gaza Strip. Photo by Ashraf Amra
Palestinian men mourn over the bodies of six children who were killed in a explosion in a public playground in the beachfront Shati refugee camp in Gaza City on July 28, 2014. At least 10 Palestinians are killed and more than 40 are injured in two Israeli airstrikes in the Gaza Strip, medics say, adding that most of the casualties are children. Photo by Ezz al-Zanoun
Palestinians look at the rubble of a destroyed house following an Israeli missile strike, in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip, July 14, 2014. Israel began airstrikes Tuesday against militants in the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip in what it says was a response to heavy rocket fire out of the densely populated territory. The military says it has launched more than 1,300 airstrikes since then, while Palestinian militants have launched nearly 1,000 rockets at Israel. Photo by Eyad Al Baba
A Palestinian family breaks its day-long fast at a UN school in Gaza City on July 13, 2014, after evacuating its home near the border with Israel. Israel harshened its campaign against Gaza, warning Palestinians in the north to flee after marines mounted a ground attack, as diplomatic efforts to halt the bloodshed intensified. The Palestinian death toll from the punishing Israeli air campaign hit 166, with another 1,120 people wounded, the emergency services said. Photo by Ashraf Amra
Palestinians gather around the remains of a house which police said was destroyed in an Israeli air strike in Gaza City July 14, 2014. Israel appeared to hold off on a threatened escalation of its week-old Gaza Strip barrage on Monday despite balking at Western calls for a ceasefire with an equally defiant Hamas. The Gaza Health Ministry said at least 166 Palestinians - among them about 138 civilians, including 30 children - have died during six days of warfare, and more than 1,000 wounded. Israel says its offensive is intended to halt rocket fire at its cities from the Gaza Strip. Photo by Mohammed Asad