Israel Targets Gaza Mosques, Disabled
"They are bankrupt of targets and of pity. What would the handicapped have been resisting?” Azzedin Ali, 26, a neighbor of the disabled centre, told the New York Times.
“This is the enemy striking civilians in the places they think they are safe.”
While taking suhoor meal before dawn, the director of the disabled center could hear the knocking warning that a rocket has hit the roof of the clinic before the explosion.
At least two of the disabled were dead and several were wounded in Saturday's attack in northern Gaza.
“No one could imagine the center would be a target for anyone," Jamila Elaiwa, who founded the disabled center 20 years ago.
Another Israeli air strike targeted innocent civilians on Saturday, when a mosque was bombed before dawn prayer, leaving at least four killed.
“This is the house of God,” said Muhammad Hamad, 25, junior imam of the mosque.
Digging through the rubble with the help of young men, the imam found a Qur'an copy open at the verse “Victory is imminent for those who remain steadfast.”
Israel has been launching relentless airstrikes against Gaza since Tuesday in which more than 120 have been killed and over 500 injured in the tiny coastal strip.
Israel has claimed that its new war on Gaza, under the title Operation Protect Edge, was a response to the rocket attacks being carried out by Hamas.
It added that its offensive is intended to halt rocket fire at its cities from the Gaza Strip.
There have been no Israeli casualties from the hundreds of rockets that have been fired by militants in Gaza.
Source: On Islam
