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mw-list-item" title="good article badge"><a href="https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D8%B3%D8%AC%D8%AF_%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B9%D9%85%D8%B1%D9%8A_%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%83%D8%A8%D9%8A%D8%B1_(%D8%BA%D8%B2%D8%A9)" title="المسجد العمري الكبير (غزة) – Arabic" lang="ar" hreflang="ar" data-title="المسجد العمري الكبير (غزة)" data-language-autonym="العربية" data-language-local-name="Arabic" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>العربية</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bn mw-list-item"><a href="https://bn.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A6%AE%E0%A6%B8%E0%A6%9C%E0%A6%BF%E0%A6%A6_%E0%A6%86%E0%A6%B2-%E0%A6%89%E0%A6%AE%E0%A6%B0%E0%A6%BF_%E0%A6%86%E0%A6%B2-%E0%A6%95%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%AC%E0%A6%BF%E0%A6%B0" title="মসজিদ আল-উমরি আল-কাবির – Bangla" lang="bn" hreflang="bn" data-title="মসজিদ আল-উমরি আল-কাবির" data-language-autonym="বাংলা" data-language-local-name="Bangla" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>বাংলা</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ca mw-list-item"><a href="https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gran_Mesquita_de_Gaza" title="Gran Mesquita de Gaza – Catalan" lang="ca" hreflang="ca" data-title="Gran Mesquita de Gaza" data-language-autonym="Català" data-language-local-name="Catalan" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Català</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-cs mw-list-item"><a href="https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Velk%C3%A1_me%C5%A1ita_(Gaza)" title="Velká mešita (Gaza) – Czech" lang="cs" hreflang="cs" data-title="Velká mešita (Gaza)" data-language-autonym="Čeština" data-language-local-name="Czech" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Čeština</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-cy mw-list-item"><a href="https://cy.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mosg_Enfawr_Gaza" title="Mosg Enfawr Gaza – Welsh" lang="cy" hreflang="cy" data-title="Mosg Enfawr Gaza" data-language-autonym="Cymraeg" data-language-local-name="Welsh" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Cymraeg</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-de mw-list-item"><a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gro%C3%9Fe_Moschee_von_Gaza" title="Große Moschee von Gaza – German" lang="de" hreflang="de" data-title="Große Moschee von Gaza" data-language-autonym="Deutsch" data-language-local-name="German" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Deutsch</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-es badge-Q17437798 badge-goodarticle mw-list-item" title="good article badge"><a href="https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gran_Mezquita_de_Gaza" title="Gran Mezquita de Gaza – Spanish" lang="es" hreflang="es" data-title="Gran Mezquita de Gaza" data-language-autonym="Español" data-language-local-name="Spanish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Español</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-eu mw-list-item"><a href="https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gazako_Meskita_Nagusia" title="Gazako Meskita Nagusia – Basque" lang="eu" hreflang="eu" data-title="Gazako Meskita Nagusia" data-language-autonym="Euskara" data-language-local-name="Basque" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Euskara</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fa mw-list-item"><a href="https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D8%B3%D8%AC%D8%AF_%D8%AC%D8%A7%D9%85%D8%B9_%D8%BA%D8%B2%D9%87" title="مسجد جامع غزه – Persian" lang="fa" hreflang="fa" data-title="مسجد جامع غزه" data-language-autonym="فارسی" data-language-local-name="Persian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>فارسی</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fr mw-list-item"><a href="https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grande_Mosqu%C3%A9e_de_Gaza" title="Grande Mosquée de Gaza – French" lang="fr" hreflang="fr" data-title="Grande Mosquée de Gaza" data-language-autonym="Français" data-language-local-name="French" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Français</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ko mw-list-item"><a href="https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EA%B0%80%EC%9E%90_%EB%8C%80%EB%AA%A8%EC%8A%A4%ED%81%AC" title="가자 대모스크 – Korean" lang="ko" hreflang="ko" data-title="가자 대모스크" data-language-autonym="한국어" data-language-local-name="Korean" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>한국어</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-id mw-list-item"><a href="https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masjid_Raya_Gaza" title="Masjid Raya Gaza – Indonesian" lang="id" hreflang="id" data-title="Masjid Raya Gaza" data-language-autonym="Bahasa Indonesia" data-language-local-name="Indonesian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Bahasa Indonesia</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-it badge-Q17437798 badge-goodarticle mw-list-item" title="good article badge"><a href="https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grande_moschea_di_Gaza" title="Grande moschea di Gaza – Italian" lang="it" hreflang="it" data-title="Grande moschea di Gaza" data-language-autonym="Italiano" data-language-local-name="Italian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Italiano</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-he mw-list-item"><a href="https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%94%D7%9E%D7%A1%D7%92%D7%93_%D7%94%D7%92%D7%93%D7%95%D7%9C_%D7%91%D7%A2%D7%96%D7%94" title="המסגד הגדול בעזה – Hebrew" lang="he" hreflang="he" data-title="המסגד הגדול בעזה" data-language-autonym="עברית" data-language-local-name="Hebrew" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>עברית</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-kw mw-list-item"><a href="https://kw.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mosk_Meur_Gaza" title="Mosk Meur Gaza – Cornish" lang="kw" hreflang="kw" data-title="Mosk Meur Gaza" data-language-autonym="Kernowek" data-language-local-name="Cornish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Kernowek</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-rw mw-list-item"><a href="https://rw.wikipedia.org/wiki/Umusigiti_mukuru_muri_Gaza" title="Umusigiti mukuru muri Gaza – Kinyarwanda" lang="rw" hreflang="rw" data-title="Umusigiti mukuru muri Gaza" data-language-autonym="Ikinyarwanda" data-language-local-name="Kinyarwanda" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Ikinyarwanda</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-arz mw-list-item"><a href="https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D8%B3%D8%AC%D8%AF_%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B9%D9%85%D8%B1%D9%89_%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%83%D8%A8%D9%8A%D8%B1" title="المسجد العمرى الكبير – Egyptian Arabic" lang="arz" hreflang="arz" data-title="المسجد العمرى الكبير" data-language-autonym="مصرى" data-language-local-name="Egyptian Arabic" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>مصرى</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ms mw-list-item"><a href="https://ms.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masjid_Agung_Gaza" title="Masjid Agung Gaza – Malay" lang="ms" hreflang="ms" data-title="Masjid Agung Gaza" data-language-autonym="Bahasa Melayu" data-language-local-name="Malay" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Bahasa Melayu</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pt mw-list-item"><a href="https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grande_Mesquita_de_Gaza" title="Grande Mesquita de Gaza – Portuguese" lang="pt" hreflang="pt" data-title="Grande Mesquita de Gaza" data-language-autonym="Português" data-language-local-name="Portuguese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Português</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ru mw-list-item"><a href="https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%92%D0%B5%D0%BB%D0%B8%D0%BA%D0%B0%D1%8F_%D0%BC%D0%B5%D1%87%D0%B5%D1%82%D1%8C_(%D0%93%D0%B0%D0%B7%D0%B0)" title="Великая мечеть (Газа) – Russian" lang="ru" hreflang="ru" data-title="Великая мечеть (Газа)" data-language-autonym="Русский" data-language-local-name="Russian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Русский</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sd mw-list-item"><a href="https://sd.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%BA%D8%B2%D9%87_%D8%AC%D9%8A_%D8%B9%D8%B8%DB%8C%D9%85_%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B4%D8%A7%D9%86_%D9%85%D8%B3%D8%AC%D8%AF" title="غزه جي عظیم الشان مسجد – Sindhi" lang="sd" hreflang="sd" data-title="غزه جي عظیم الشان مسجد" data-language-autonym="سنڌي" 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.mw-parser-output .infobox-table th,body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table td{padding-left:inherit;padding-right:inherit}}</style><table class="infobox vcard" style="border-spacing:2px;"><tbody><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-above" style="background-color: #9BE89B">Great Mosque of Gaza <br /> Great Omari Mosque</th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-image"><span class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Frameless"><a href="/wiki/File:Great_Mosque_of_Gaza_(Omari_Mosque).jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/27/Great_Mosque_of_Gaza_%28Omari_Mosque%29.jpg/220px-Great_Mosque_of_Gaza_%28Omari_Mosque%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="235" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/27/Great_Mosque_of_Gaza_%28Omari_Mosque%29.jpg/330px-Great_Mosque_of_Gaza_%28Omari_Mosque%29.jpg 1.5x, 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class="infobox-label">Region</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Levant" title="Levant">Levant</a></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="background-color: #9BE89B">Location</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Location</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Omar_Mukhtar_Street" title="Omar Mukhtar Street">Omar Mukhtar Street</a>, <a href="/wiki/Al-Daraj" class="mw-redirect" title="Al-Daraj">al-Daraj</a>, <a href="/wiki/Gaza_Strip" title="Gaza Strip">Gaza Strip</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Country</th><td class="infobox-data">State of Palestine</td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1238443738">.mw-parser-output .locmap .od{position:absolute}.mw-parser-output .locmap .id{position:absolute;line-height:0}.mw-parser-output .locmap .l0{font-size:0;position:absolute}.mw-parser-output .locmap 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style">Style</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Mamluk_architecture" title="Mamluk architecture">Mamluk</a>, <a href="/wiki/Norman_architecture" title="Norman architecture">Italian Gothic</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Completed</th><td class="infobox-data note">7th century<sup id="cite_ref-PEDCAR_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-PEDCAR-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> (original)<br />1340<sup id="cite_ref-MAH_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-MAH-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> (rebuilt)<br />c.1650<sup id="cite_ref-Ring_and_Salkin_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Ring_and_Salkin-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Ma'an_4-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Ma'an-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> (restored)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Demolished</th><td class="infobox-data">By <a href="/wiki/Israel" title="Israel">Israel</a> on December 7, 2023 (<a href="/wiki/Israel-Hamas_war" class="mw-redirect" title="Israel-Hamas war">Israel-Hamas war</a>)</td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="background-color: #9BE89B">Specifications</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Minaret" title="Minaret">Minaret</a>(s)</th><td class="infobox-data">1</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Building_material" title="Building material">Materials</a></th><td class="infobox-data">Sandstone (exterior structure), marble and plaster tiles (entrance and interior structure), olive wood</td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="background-color: #9BE89B">Website</th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"><span class="official-website"><span class="url"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20091225180011/http://picasaweb.google.com/mohammed.alafrangi/AlOmariMosque">Official website</a></span></span></td></tr></tbody></table> <p>The <b>Great Mosque of Gaza</b>,<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>a<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> also known as the <b>Great Omari Mosque</b>,<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>b<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> was the largest and oldest <a href="/wiki/Mosque" title="Mosque">mosque</a> in all of <a href="/wiki/Gaza_Strip" title="Gaza Strip">Gaza</a>, <a href="/wiki/State_of_Palestine" title="State of Palestine">Palestine</a>, located in <a href="/wiki/Gaza_City" title="Gaza City">Gaza City</a>. </p><p>Believed to stand on the site of an ancient <a href="/wiki/Philistine" class="mw-redirect" title="Philistine">Philistine</a> temple, the site was used by the <a href="/wiki/Byzantine_Empire" title="Byzantine Empire">Byzantines</a> to erect a church in the 5th century. After the <a href="/wiki/Muslim_conquest_of_Syria" class="mw-redirect" title="Muslim conquest of Syria">Rashidun conquest</a> in the 7th century, it was transformed into a mosque. The Great Mosque's <a href="/wiki/Minaret" title="Minaret">minaret</a> was toppled in an <a href="/wiki/1033_Jordan_Rift_Valley_earthquake" class="mw-redirect" title="1033 Jordan Rift Valley earthquake">earthquake in 1033</a>. In 1149, the <a href="/wiki/Crusades" title="Crusades">Crusaders</a> built a large church. It was mostly destroyed by the <a href="/wiki/Ayyubid_dynasty" title="Ayyubid dynasty">Ayyubids</a> in 1187, and then rebuilt as a mosque by the <a href="/wiki/Mamluk_Sultanate_(Cairo)" class="mw-redirect" title="Mamluk Sultanate (Cairo)">Mamluks</a> in the early 13th century. </p><p>It was destroyed by the <a href="/wiki/Mongols" title="Mongols">Mongols</a> in 1260, then soon restored. It was destroyed by an earthquake at the end of the century. The Great Mosque was restored again by the <a href="/wiki/Ottoman_Empire" title="Ottoman Empire">Ottomans</a> roughly 300 years later. Severely damaged after British bombardment during <a href="/wiki/World_War_I" title="World War I">World War I</a>, the mosque was restored in 1925 by the <a href="/wiki/Supreme_Muslim_Council" title="Supreme Muslim Council">Supreme Muslim Council</a>. In 2023, during the <a href="/wiki/Israel-Hamas_war" class="mw-redirect" title="Israel-Hamas war">Israel-Hamas war</a>, it was destroyed by an <a href="/wiki/Israel" title="Israel">Israeli</a> airstrike, leaving most of the structure collapsed and the minaret partially destroyed.<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Location">Location</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Great_Mosque_of_Gaza&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Location"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The Great Mosque is situated in the <a href="/wiki/Al-Daraj" class="mw-redirect" title="Al-Daraj">Daraj Quarter</a> of the Old City in Downtown Gaza at the eastern end of <a href="/wiki/Omar_Mukhtar_Street" title="Omar Mukhtar Street">Omar Mukhtar Street</a>, southeast of <a href="/wiki/Palestine_Square" title="Palestine Square">Palestine Square</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-PEDCAR_1-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-PEDCAR-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Gaza's <a href="/wiki/Gold_Market" title="Gold Market">Gold Market</a> is located adjacent to it on the south side. To the northeast is the <a href="/wiki/Katib_al-Wilaya_Mosque" title="Katib al-Wilaya Mosque">Katib al-Wilaya Mosque</a>. To the east, on <a href="/wiki/Wehda_Street" title="Wehda Street">Wehda Street</a>, is a girls' school.<sup id="cite_ref-Winter_9-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Winter-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="History">History</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Great_Mosque_of_Gaza&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: History"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Legendary_Philistine_roots">Legendary Philistine roots</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Great_Mosque_of_Gaza&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Legendary Philistine roots"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>According to tradition, the mosque stands on the site of the <a href="/wiki/Philistine" class="mw-redirect" title="Philistine">Philistine</a> temple dedicated to <a href="/wiki/Dagon" title="Dagon">Dagon</a>—the god of fertility—which <a href="/wiki/Samson" title="Samson">Samson</a> toppled in the <a href="/wiki/Book_of_Judges" title="Book of Judges">Book of Judges</a>. Later, a temple dedicated to <a href="/wiki/Dagon#Marnas" title="Dagon">Marnas</a>—god of rain and grain—was erected.<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Dowling_11-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Dowling-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Local legend today claims that Samson is buried under the present mosque.<sup id="cite_ref-Ring_and_Salkin_3-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Ring_and_Salkin-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Byzantine_church">Byzantine church</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Great_Mosque_of_Gaza&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Byzantine church"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>A Christian <a href="/wiki/Basilica" title="Basilica">basilica</a> was built on the site in the 5th Century AD, either during the reign of <a href="/wiki/Byzantine_Empire" title="Byzantine Empire">Eastern Roman Empress</a> <a href="/wiki/Aelia_Eudocia" title="Aelia Eudocia">Aelia Eudocia</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-Dowling_11-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Dowling-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Pringle_12-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Pringle-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> or Emperor <a href="/wiki/Marcian" title="Marcian">Marcianus</a>.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (July 2019)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> In either event, the basilica was finished and appeared on the 6th-century <a href="/wiki/Madaba_Map" title="Madaba Map">Madaba Map</a> of the Holy Land.<sup id="cite_ref-Pringle_12-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Pringle-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Early_Muslim_mosque">Early Muslim mosque</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Great_Mosque_of_Gaza&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Early Muslim mosque"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Great_Mosque_of_Gaza,_19th_century.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b8/Great_Mosque_of_Gaza%2C_19th_century.jpg/220px-Great_Mosque_of_Gaza%2C_19th_century.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="165" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b8/Great_Mosque_of_Gaza%2C_19th_century.jpg/330px-Great_Mosque_of_Gaza%2C_19th_century.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b8/Great_Mosque_of_Gaza%2C_19th_century.jpg/440px-Great_Mosque_of_Gaza%2C_19th_century.jpg 2x" data-file-width="615" data-file-height="462" /></a><figcaption>Courtyard, arcades and minaret of the mosque, late 19th century</figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Great_Mosque_Gaza_Facade.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/49/Great_Mosque_Gaza_Facade.jpg/220px-Great_Mosque_Gaza_Facade.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="154" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/49/Great_Mosque_Gaza_Facade.jpg/330px-Great_Mosque_Gaza_Facade.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/49/Great_Mosque_Gaza_Facade.jpg/440px-Great_Mosque_Gaza_Facade.jpg 2x" data-file-width="640" data-file-height="448" /></a><figcaption>The West facade of the Great Mosque reflects Crusader architectural style. Picture taken after British bombardment in 1917</figcaption></figure> <p>The Byzantine church was transformed into a mosque in the 7th century by <a href="/wiki/Umar" title="Umar">Omar ibn al-Khattab</a>'s generals,<sup id="cite_ref-PEDCAR_1-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-PEDCAR-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Ma'an_4-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Ma'an-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> after the conquest of <a href="/wiki/Palaestina_Prima" title="Palaestina Prima">Roman Palaestina</a> by the <a href="/wiki/Rashidun_Caliphate" title="Rashidun Caliphate">Rashidun Caliphate</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Pringle_12-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Pringle-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The mosque is still alternatively named "al-Omari", in honour of Omar ibn al-Khattab who was <a href="/wiki/Caliph" class="mw-redirect" title="Caliph">caliph</a> during the <a href="/wiki/Muslim_conquest_of_Syria" class="mw-redirect" title="Muslim conquest of Syria">Muslim conquest of Palestine</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-PEDCAR_1-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-PEDCAR-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 985, during <a href="/wiki/Abbasid_Caliphate" title="Abbasid Caliphate">Abbasid</a> rule, <a href="/wiki/Arab" class="mw-redirect" title="Arab">Arab</a> geographer <a href="/wiki/Al-Muqaddasi" class="mw-redirect" title="Al-Muqaddasi">al-Muqaddasi</a> wrote that the Great Mosque was a "beautiful mosque."<sup id="cite_ref-Pringle_12-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Pringle-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Ring_14-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Ring-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> On 5 December 1033, an <a href="/wiki/1033_Jordan_Rift_Valley_earthquake" class="mw-redirect" title="1033 Jordan Rift Valley earthquake">earthquake</a> caused the pinnacle of the mosque's minaret to collapse.<sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Crusader_church">Crusader church</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Great_Mosque_of_Gaza&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Crusader church"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In 1149, the <a href="/wiki/Crusades" title="Crusades">Crusaders</a>, who had conquered Gaza in 1100, built a large church atop the ruins of the earlier Byzantine church upon a decree by <a href="/wiki/Baldwin_III_of_Jerusalem" title="Baldwin III of Jerusalem">Baldwin III of Jerusalem</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Briggs_16-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Briggs-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> However, in <a href="/wiki/William_of_Tyre" title="William of Tyre">William of Tyre</a>'s descriptions of grand Crusader churches, it is not mentioned.<sup id="cite_ref-Pringle_12-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Pringle-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Of the Great Mosque's three aisles today, it is believed that portions of two of them had formed part of the Crusader church.<sup id="cite_ref-Briggs_16-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Briggs-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <figure typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Menorah_engraving,_Great_Mosque_of_Gaza.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/36/Menorah_engraving%2C_Great_Mosque_of_Gaza.jpg/150px-Menorah_engraving%2C_Great_Mosque_of_Gaza.jpg" decoding="async" width="150" height="212" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/36/Menorah_engraving%2C_Great_Mosque_of_Gaza.jpg/225px-Menorah_engraving%2C_Great_Mosque_of_Gaza.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/36/Menorah_engraving%2C_Great_Mosque_of_Gaza.jpg 2x" data-file-width="255" data-file-height="361" /></a><figcaption>Engraving of Jewish <a href="/wiki/Temple_menorah" title="Temple menorah">Menorah</a> and an <a href="/wiki/Ancient_Hebrew_writings" title="Ancient Hebrew writings">ancient Hebrew</a> inscription, which have been erased<sup id="cite_ref-ArchaeologicalResearches_17-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ArchaeologicalResearches-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></figcaption></figure> <p>Based on a Jewish <a href="/wiki/Bas-relief" class="mw-redirect" title="Bas-relief">bas-relief</a> accompanied by a <a href="/wiki/Hebrew_language" title="Hebrew language">Hebrew</a> and <a href="/wiki/Greek_language" title="Greek language">Greek</a> inscription<sup id="cite_ref-ArchaeologicalResearches_17-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ArchaeologicalResearches-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> carved on the upper tier of one of the building's columns, it was suggested in the late 19th century that the upper pillars of the building were brought from a 3rd-century Jewish synagogue in <a href="/wiki/Caesarea_Maritima" title="Caesarea Maritima">Caesarea Maritima</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-18" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The discovery of a <a href="/wiki/Gaza_synagogue" title="Gaza synagogue">6th-century synagogue</a> at <a href="/wiki/Maiuma_(city)" title="Maiuma (city)"> Maiumas</a>, the ancient port of Gaza, in the 1960s make local re-use of this column much likelier. The relief on the column depicted Jewish cultic objects - a <i><a href="/wiki/Menorah_(Temple)" class="mw-redirect" title="Menorah (Temple)">menorah</a></i>, a <i><a href="/wiki/Shofar" title="Shofar">shofar</a></i>, a <i><a href="/wiki/Lulav" title="Lulav">lulav</a></i> and <i><a href="/wiki/Etrog" title="Etrog">etrog</a></i> - surrounded by a decorative wreath, and the inscription read "Hananyah son of Jacob" in both Hebrew and Greek.<sup id="cite_ref-ArchaeologicalResearches_17-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ArchaeologicalResearches-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Above it was carved a <a href="/wiki/Temple_menorah" title="Temple menorah">menorah</a> with a <a href="/wiki/Shofar" title="Shofar">shofar</a> on one side and an <a href="/wiki/Etrog" title="Etrog">etrog</a> on the other. During the late 19th century, the column was part of an old synagogue in <a href="/wiki/Caesarea_Maritima" title="Caesarea Maritima">Caesarea Maritima</a> and was brought to the mosque for its perceived religious value, as the Caesarea church had appeared in the <a href="/wiki/Madaba_Map" title="Madaba Map">Madaba Map</a>. The fact that this Jewish symbol was preserved throughout the decades inside the mosque was described as demonstrating "peaceful coexistence" by scholar Ziad Shehada.<sup id="cite_ref-19" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 1187, the <a href="/wiki/Ayyubid_dynasty" title="Ayyubid dynasty">Ayyubids</a>, under <a href="/wiki/Saladin" title="Saladin">Saladin</a> wrested control of Gaza from the Crusaders and destroyed the church.<sup id="cite_ref-MOG_20-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-MOG-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Mamluk_mosque">Mamluk mosque</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Great_Mosque_of_Gaza&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Mamluk mosque"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The <a href="/wiki/Bahri_dynasty" class="mw-redirect" title="Bahri dynasty">Mamluks</a> reconstructed the mosque in the 13th century. In 1260, the <a href="/wiki/Mongol_Empire" title="Mongol Empire">Mongols</a> destroyed it.<sup id="cite_ref-Ring_14-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Ring-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> It was rebuilt, but in 1294, an earthquake caused its collapse.<sup id="cite_ref-Ring_and_Salkin_3-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Ring_and_Salkin-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Extensive renovations centered on the <i><a href="/wiki/Iwan" title="Iwan">iwan</a></i> were undertaken by the governor Sunqur al-Ala'i during the sultanate of Husam ad-Din Lajin between 1297-99.<sup id="cite_ref-21" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> A later Mamluk governor of the city, <a href="/wiki/Sanjar_al-Jawli" title="Sanjar al-Jawli">Sanjar al-Jawli</a>, commissioned the restoration of the Great Mosque sometime between 1311 and 1319.<sup id="cite_ref-Pringle_12-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Pringle-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-ADL_22-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ADL-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The Mamluks rebuilt the mosque completely in 1340.<sup id="cite_ref-MAH_2-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-MAH-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 1355, <a href="/wiki/Muslim" class="mw-redirect" title="Muslim">Muslim</a> geographer <a href="/wiki/Ibn_Battuta" title="Ibn Battuta">Ibn Battuta</a> noted the mosque's former existence as "a fine Friday mosque," and said that al-Jawli's mosque was "well-built."<sup id="cite_ref-IB_23-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-IB-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Inscriptions on the mosque bear the signatures of the Mamluk sultans <a href="/wiki/Al-Nasir_Muhammad" title="Al-Nasir Muhammad">al-Nasir Muhammad</a> (dated 1340), <a href="/wiki/Qaitbay" title="Qaitbay">Qaitbay</a> (dated May 1498), <a href="/wiki/Al-Ashraf_Qansuh_al-Ghawri" class="mw-redirect" title="Al-Ashraf Qansuh al-Ghawri">Qansuh al-Ghawri</a> (dated 1516), and the <a href="/wiki/Abbasid" class="mw-redirect" title="Abbasid">Abbasid</a> caliph <a href="/wiki/Al-Musta%27in_(Cairo)" title="Al-Musta'in (Cairo)">al-Musta'in Billah</a> (dated 1412).<sup id="cite_ref-24" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Ottoman_period">Ottoman period</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Great_Mosque_of_Gaza&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: Ottoman period"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In the 16th century, the mosque was restored after apparent damage in the previous century. The <a href="/wiki/Ottoman_Empire" title="Ottoman Empire">Ottomans</a> commissioned its restoration and built six other mosques in the city. They had been in control of Palestine since 1517.<sup id="cite_ref-Ring_and_Salkin_3-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Ring_and_Salkin-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The interior bears an inscription of the name of the Ottoman governor of Gaza, <a href="/wiki/Musa_Pasha_ibn_Hasan_Ridwan" class="mw-redirect" title="Musa Pasha ibn Hasan Ridwan">Musa Pasha</a>, brother of deposed <a href="/wiki/Husayn_Pasha" title="Husayn Pasha">Husayn Pasha</a>, dating from 1663.<sup id="cite_ref-Ma'an_4-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Ma'an-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Great_Mosque_of_Gaza.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/db/Great_Mosque_of_Gaza.jpg/220px-Great_Mosque_of_Gaza.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="152" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/db/Great_Mosque_of_Gaza.jpg/330px-Great_Mosque_of_Gaza.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/db/Great_Mosque_of_Gaza.jpg/440px-Great_Mosque_of_Gaza.jpg 2x" data-file-width="640" data-file-height="443" /></a><figcaption>An exterior view of the mosque in the early 20th century, before renovation</figcaption></figure> <p>Some Western travelers in the late 19th century reported that the Great Mosque was the only structure in Gaza worthy of historical or architectural note.<sup id="cite_ref-25" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-26" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-26"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The Great Mosque was severely damaged by <a href="/wiki/Allies_of_World_War_I" title="Allies of World War I">Allied forces</a> while attacking the Ottoman positions in Gaza during <a href="/wiki/World_War_I" title="World War I">World War I</a>. The British claimed that there were Ottoman munitions stored in the mosque and that its destruction was caused when the munitions were ignited by the bombardment.<sup id="cite_ref-Shawa_27-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Shawa-27"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="noprint Inline-Template"><span style="white-space: nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Link_rot" title="Wikipedia:Link rot"><span title=" Dead link tagged May 2024">dead link</span></a></i><span style="visibility:hidden; color:transparent; padding-left:2px">‍</span>]</span></sup><sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (May 2024)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="British_Mandate">British Mandate</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Great_Mosque_of_Gaza&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: British Mandate"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Under the supervision of former Gaza mayor <a href="/wiki/Said_al-Shawa" class="mw-redirect" title="Said al-Shawa">Said al-Shawa</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-Shawa_27-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Shawa-27"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> it was restored by the <a href="/wiki/Supreme_Muslim_Council" title="Supreme Muslim Council">Supreme Muslim Council</a> in 1926-27.<sup id="cite_ref-28" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-28"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 1928, the Supreme Muslim Council held a mass demonstration involving both local Muslims and <a href="/wiki/Arab_Christian" class="mw-redirect" title="Arab Christian">Christians</a> at the Great Mosque in order to rally support for boycotting elections and participation in the Legislative Assembly of the <a href="/wiki/Mandatory_Palestine" title="Mandatory Palestine">British Mandate of Palestine</a> government. To increase the number of people in the rally, they ordered all the mosques in one of Gaza's quarters to temporarily close.<sup id="cite_ref-29" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-29"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>27<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Post-1948">Post-1948</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Great_Mosque_of_Gaza&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: Post-1948"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Southern_Palestine,_Hebron,_Beersheba_and_Gaza_area._Gaza,_central_section_LOC_matpc.22887.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ee/Southern_Palestine%2C_Hebron%2C_Beersheba_and_Gaza_area._Gaza%2C_central_section_LOC_matpc.22887.jpg/220px-Southern_Palestine%2C_Hebron%2C_Beersheba_and_Gaza_area._Gaza%2C_central_section_LOC_matpc.22887.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="151" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ee/Southern_Palestine%2C_Hebron%2C_Beersheba_and_Gaza_area._Gaza%2C_central_section_LOC_matpc.22887.jpg/330px-Southern_Palestine%2C_Hebron%2C_Beersheba_and_Gaza_area._Gaza%2C_central_section_LOC_matpc.22887.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ee/Southern_Palestine%2C_Hebron%2C_Beersheba_and_Gaza_area._Gaza%2C_central_section_LOC_matpc.22887.jpg/440px-Southern_Palestine%2C_Hebron%2C_Beersheba_and_Gaza_area._Gaza%2C_central_section_LOC_matpc.22887.jpg 2x" data-file-width="5065" data-file-height="3478" /></a><figcaption>The mosque in the 1950s or 1960s.</figcaption></figure> <p>The ancient inscriptions and <a href="/wiki/Bas-relief" class="mw-redirect" title="Bas-relief">bas-relief</a> of Jewish religious symbols were chiseled away intentionally between 1973 and 1993.<sup id="cite_ref-30" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-30"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>28<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> During the <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Gaza_(2007)" title="Battle of Gaza (2007)">Battle of Gaza</a> between the <a href="/wiki/Palestinian_people" class="mw-redirect" title="Palestinian people">Palestinian</a> organizations of <a href="/wiki/Hamas" title="Hamas">Hamas</a> and <a href="/wiki/Fatah" title="Fatah">Fatah</a>, the mosque's pro-Hamas <a href="/wiki/Imam" title="Imam">imam</a> Mohammed al-Rafati was shot dead by Fatah gunmen on June 12, 2007, in retaliation for the killing of an official of <a href="/wiki/Mahmoud_Abbas" title="Mahmoud Abbas">Mahmoud Abbas</a>'s presidential guard by Hamas earlier that day.<sup id="cite_ref-31" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-31"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>29<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Ma'an_4-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Ma'an-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 2019–20, 211 manuscripts in the library's collection were digitised.<sup id="cite_ref-32" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-32"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>30<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The structure of the mosque was heavily damaged, with some sources describing it as destroyed, by Israeli bombardment during the 2023 <a href="/wiki/Israel%E2%80%93Hamas_war" title="Israel–Hamas war">Israel–Hamas war</a>. Photographs show the central section of the mosque fully collapsed, with its minaret partially toppled.<sup id="cite_ref-33" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-33"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>31<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-34" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-34"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>32<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-35" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-35"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>33<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Architecture">Architecture</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Great_Mosque_of_Gaza&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: Architecture"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Gaza_Mosque_Nave.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1d/Gaza_Mosque_Nave.jpg/220px-Gaza_Mosque_Nave.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="255" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1d/Gaza_Mosque_Nave.jpg/330px-Gaza_Mosque_Nave.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/1d/Gaza_Mosque_Nave.jpg 2x" data-file-width="438" data-file-height="507" /></a><figcaption>The central section of the mosque, looking west, after the 1917 British bombardment</figcaption></figure> <p>The Great Mosque has an area of 4,100 square metres (44,000 sq ft).<sup id="cite_ref-Ma'an_4-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Ma'an-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-MOG_20-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-MOG-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Most of the general structure is constructed from local marine <a href="/wiki/Sandstone" title="Sandstone">sandstone</a> known as <i><a href="/wiki/Kurkar" title="Kurkar">kurkar</a></i>.<sup id="cite_ref-Pringle3_36-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Pringle3-36"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>34<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The mosque forms a large <i><a href="/wiki/Sahn" title="Sahn">sahn</a></i> ("courtyard") surrounded by rounded <a href="/wiki/Arch" title="Arch">arches</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-MOG_20-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-MOG-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The Mamluks, and later the Ottomans, had the south and southeastern sides of the building expanded.<sup id="cite_ref-Winter_9-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Winter-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Over the door of the mosque is an inscription containing the name of Mamluk sultan <a href="/wiki/Qalawun" title="Qalawun">Qalawun</a> and there are also inscriptions containing the names of the sultans <a href="/wiki/Lajin" title="Lajin">Lajin</a> and <a href="/wiki/Barquq" title="Barquq">Barquq</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Meyer_37-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Meyer-37"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>35<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Interior">Interior</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Great_Mosque_of_Gaza&action=edit&section=12" title="Edit section: Interior"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>When the building was transformed from a church into a mosque, most of the previous Crusader construction was completely replaced, but the mosque's <a href="/wiki/Facade" class="mw-redirect" title="Facade">facade</a> with its arched western entrance is a typical piece of Crusader <a href="/wiki/Ecclesiastical" title="Ecclesiastical">ecclesiastical</a> architecture,<sup id="cite_ref-38" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-38"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>36<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and <a href="/wiki/Column" title="Column">columns</a> within the mosque compound still retain their <a href="/wiki/Norman_architecture" title="Norman architecture">Italian</a> <a href="/wiki/Gothic_architecture" title="Gothic architecture">Gothic style</a>. Some of the columns have been identified as elements of an ancient synagogue, reused as construction material in the Crusader era and still forming part of the mosque.<sup id="cite_ref-39" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-39"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>37<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Internally, the wall surfaces are plastered and painted. <a href="/wiki/Marble" title="Marble">Marble</a> is used for the western door and the western facade's <a href="/wiki/Oculus_(architecture)" title="Oculus (architecture)">oculus</a>. The floors are covered with glazed tiles. The columns are also made of marble and their capitals are built in <a href="/wiki/Corinth" title="Corinth">Corinthian</a> style.<sup id="cite_ref-Pringle3_36-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Pringle3-36"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>34<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The central <a href="/wiki/Nave" title="Nave">nave</a> is <a href="/wiki/Groin_vault" title="Groin vault">groin-vaulted</a>, each <a href="/wiki/Bay_(architecture)" title="Bay (architecture)">bay</a> being separated from one another by pointed <a href="/wiki/Transverse_arch" class="mw-redirect" title="Transverse arch">transverse arches</a> with rectangular profiles. The nave arcades are carried on cruciform piers with an <a href="/wiki/Engaged_column" title="Engaged column">engaged column</a> on each face, sitting on a raised <a href="/wiki/Plinth" class="mw-redirect" title="Plinth">plinth</a>. The two aisles of the mosque are also groin-vaulted.<sup id="cite_ref-Pringle3_36-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Pringle3-36"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>34<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Ibn_Battuta" title="Ibn Battuta">Ibn Battuta</a> noted that the Great Mosque had a white marble <i><a href="/wiki/Minbar" title="Minbar">minbar</a></i> ("pulpit");<sup id="cite_ref-IB_23-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-IB-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> it still exists today. There is a small <i><a href="/wiki/Mihrab" title="Mihrab">mihrab</a></i> in the mosque with an inscription dating from 1663, containing the name of Musa Pasha, a governor of Gaza during Ottoman rule.<sup id="cite_ref-Meyer_37-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Meyer-37"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>35<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Minaret">Minaret</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Great_Mosque_of_Gaza&action=edit&section=13" title="Edit section: Minaret"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The mosque is well known for its <a href="/wiki/Minaret" title="Minaret">minaret</a>, which is square-shaped in its lower half and octagonal in its upper half, typical of Mamluk architectural style. The minaret is constructed of stone from the base to the upper, hanging balcony, including the four-tiered upper half. The pinnacle is mostly made of woodwork and tiles, and is frequently renewed. A simple <a href="/wiki/Cupola" title="Cupola">cupola</a> springs from the octagonal stone drum and is of light construction similar to most mosques in the <a href="/wiki/Levant" title="Levant">Levant</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-40" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-40"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>38<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The minaret stands on what was the end of the eastern bay of the Crusader church. Its three semicircular apses were transformed into the base of the minaret.<sup id="cite_ref-41" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-41"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>39<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Great_Mosque_of_Gaza&action=edit&section=14" title="Edit section: See also"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Sayed_al-Hashim_Mosque" title="Sayed al-Hashim Mosque">Sayed al-Hashim Mosque</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Great_Mosque_of_Gaza&action=edit&section=15" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> 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title="Category:Mosques in Palestine">Category:Mosques in Palestine</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Islam_in_Palestine" title="Islam in Palestine">Islam in Palestine</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Category:Mosques_by_country" title="Category:Mosques by country">Mosques by country</a><br /></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table></div> <div class="navbox-styles"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236075235"></div><div role="navigation" class="navbox" aria-labelledby="Religious_sites_in_the_Occupied_Palestinian_Territory" style="padding:3px"><table class="nowraplinks mw-collapsible autocollapse navbox-inner" style="border-spacing:0;background:transparent;color:inherit"><tbody><tr><th scope="col" class="navbox-title" colspan="3" style="background:#CEF4B6;"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><link 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Territory</a></div></th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="background:#CEF4B6;;width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Bethlehem_Governorate" title="Bethlehem Governorate">Bethlehem Governorate</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Chapel_of_the_Milk_Grotto" title="Chapel of the Milk Grotto">Chapel of the Milk Grotto</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Chapel_of_the_Shepherd%27s_Field" class="mw-redirect" title="Chapel of the Shepherd's Field">Chapel of the Shepherd's Field</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Church_of_Saint_Catherine,_Bethlehem" title="Church of Saint Catherine, Bethlehem">Church of Saint Catherine</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Church_of_the_Nativity" title="Church of the Nativity">Church of the Nativity</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mosque_of_Omar_(Bethlehem)" title="Mosque of Omar (Bethlehem)">Mosque of Omar</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/St._George%27s_Monastery,_Al-Khader" title="St. George's Monastery, Al-Khader">St. George's Monastery, Al-Khader</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Al-Hamadiyya_Mosque" title="Al-Hamadiyya Mosque">Al-Hamadiyya Mosque</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Monastery_of_Saint_Theodosius" title="Monastery of Saint Theodosius">Monastery of Saint Theodosius</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mar_Saba" title="Mar Saba">Mar Saba</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rachel%27s_Tomb" title="Rachel's Tomb">Rachel's Tomb</a><sup>†</sup></li></ul> </div></td><td class="noviewer navbox-image" rowspan="10" style="width:1px;padding:0 0 0 2px"><div><figure class="mw-halign-right mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Flag_of_Palestine.svg" class="mw-file-description" title="Flag of Palestine"><img alt="flag icon" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/00/Flag_of_Palestine.svg/52px-Flag_of_Palestine.svg.png" decoding="async" width="52" height="26" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/00/Flag_of_Palestine.svg/78px-Flag_of_Palestine.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/00/Flag_of_Palestine.svg/104px-Flag_of_Palestine.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1200" data-file-height="600" /></a><figcaption>Flag of Palestine</figcaption></figure></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="background:#CEF4B6;;width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Hebron_Governorate" title="Hebron Governorate">Hebron Governorate</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Cave_of_the_Patriarchs" title="Cave of the Patriarchs">Ibrahimi Mosque</a><sup>†</sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sheikh_Ali_al-Bakka_Mosque" title="Sheikh Ali al-Bakka Mosque">Sheikh Ali al-Bakka Mosque</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Al-Jawali_Mosque" title="Al-Jawali Mosque">Al-Jawali Mosque</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Church_of_the_Holy_Forefathers_and_Monastery_of_the_Holy_Trinity" title="Church of the Holy Forefathers and Monastery of the Holy Trinity">Church of the Holy Forefathers and Monastery of the Holy Trinity</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="background:#CEF4B6;;width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Jenin_Governorate" title="Jenin Governorate">Jenin Governorate</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Fatima_Khatun_Mosque" title="Fatima Khatun Mosque">Fatima Khatun Mosque</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Burqin_Church" title="Burqin Church">Burqin Church</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="background:#CEF4B6;;width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Jericho_Governorate" title="Jericho Governorate">Jericho Governorate</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Deir_Hajla" title="Deir Hajla">Deir Hajla</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Monastery_of_the_Temptation" title="Monastery of the Temptation">Monastery of the Temptation</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Monastery_of_Saint_George_of_Choziba" title="Monastery of Saint George of Choziba">Monastery of Saint George of Choziba</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nabi_Musa" title="Nabi Musa">Nabi Musa</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jericho_synagogue" title="Jericho synagogue">Jericho synagogue</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="background:#CEF4B6;;width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Jerusalem_Governorate" title="Jerusalem Governorate">Jerusalem Governorate</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Tomb_of_Lazarus" title="Tomb of Lazarus">Tomb of Lazarus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Church_of_Saint_Lazarus,_Al-Eizariya" title="Church of Saint Lazarus, Al-Eizariya">Church of Saint Lazarus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Abdeen_Mosque" title="Abdeen Mosque">Abdeen Mosque</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="background:#CEF4B6;;width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Nablus_Governorate" title="Nablus Governorate">Nablus Governorate</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Great_Mosque_of_Nablus" title="Great Mosque of Nablus">Great Mosque of Nablus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/An-Nasr_Mosque" title="An-Nasr Mosque">An-Nasr Mosque</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Al-Khadra_Mosque" title="Al-Khadra Mosque">Al-Khadra Mosque</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hanbali_Mosque" title="Hanbali Mosque">Hanbali Mosque</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nabi_Yahya_Mosque" title="Nabi Yahya Mosque">Nabi Yahya Mosque</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Al-Nurayn_Mosque" class="mw-redirect" title="Al-Nurayn Mosque">Al-Nurayn Mosque</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mount_Gerizim" title="Mount Gerizim">Mount Gerizim</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mount_Ebal" title="Mount Ebal">Mount Ebal</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jacob%27s_Well" title="Jacob's Well">Jacob's Well</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Joseph%27s_Tomb" title="Joseph's Tomb">Joseph's Tomb</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="background:#CEF4B6;;width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Ramallah_and_al-Bireh_Governorate" title="Ramallah and al-Bireh Governorate">Ramallah and al-Bireh Governorate</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Jamal_Abdel_Nasser_Mosque" title="Jamal Abdel Nasser Mosque">Jamal Abdel Nasser Mosque</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Church_of_Transfiguration,_Ramallah" title="Church of Transfiguration, Ramallah">Greek Orthodox Church of the Transfiguration</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Holy_Family_Church,_Ramallah" title="Holy Family Church, Ramallah">Holy Family Catholic Church</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="background:#CEF4B6;;width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Salfit_Governorate" title="Salfit Governorate">Salfit Governorate</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Kifl_Hares#Tomb_of_Joshua" class="mw-redirect" title="Kifl Hares">Tomb of Joshua</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="background:#CEF4B6;;width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Tulkarm_Governorate" title="Tulkarm Governorate">Tulkarm Governorate</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Church_of_Saint_George_(Tulkarm)" title="Church of Saint George (Tulkarm)">Church of Saint George</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="background:#CEF4B6;;width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Gaza_Governorate" title="Gaza Governorate">Gaza Governorate</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a class="mw-selflink selflink">Great Mosque of Gaza</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Abu_Khadra_Mosque" title="Abu Khadra Mosque">Abu Khadra Mosque</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Aybaki_Mosque" title="Aybaki Mosque">Aybaki Mosque</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ibn_Marwan_Mosque" title="Ibn Marwan Mosque">Ibn Marwan Mosque</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ibn_Uthman_Mosque" title="Ibn Uthman Mosque">Ibn Uthman Mosque</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Holy_Family_Church,_Gaza" title="Holy Family Church, Gaza">Holy Family Church (Latin Catholic Church)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Church_of_Saint_Porphyrius" title="Church of Saint Porphyrius">Church of Saint Porphyrius (Orthodox Christian Church)</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><td class="navbox-abovebelow" colspan="3" style="background:#CEF4B6;"><div><small><sup>†</sup> Access to the site is controlled by Israel.</small></div></td></tr></tbody></table></div> <div class="navbox-styles"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236075235"></div><div role="navigation" class="navbox" aria-labelledby="Gaza_City" style="padding:3px"><table class="nowraplinks mw-collapsible autocollapse navbox-inner" style="border-spacing:0;background:transparent;color:inherit"><tbody><tr><th scope="col" class="navbox-title" colspan="2"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1239400231"><div class="navbar plainlinks hlist navbar-mini"><ul><li class="nv-view"><a 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href="/wiki/Aybaki_Mosque" title="Aybaki Mosque">Aybaki Mosque</a></li> <li><a class="mw-selflink selflink">Great Mosque of Gaza (Great Omari Mosque)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ibn_Marwan_Mosque" title="Ibn Marwan Mosque">Ibn Marwan Mosque</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ibn_Uthman_Mosque" title="Ibn Uthman Mosque">Ibn Uthman Mosque</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Katib_al-Wilaya_Mosque" title="Katib al-Wilaya Mosque">Katib al-Wilaya Mosque</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mahkamah_Mosque" title="Mahkamah Mosque">Mahkamah Mosque</a><sup>†</sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sayed_al-Hashim_Mosque" title="Sayed al-Hashim Mosque">Sayed al-Hashim Mosque</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Al-Shamah_Mosque" title="Al-Shamah Mosque">Sham'ah Mosque</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Shaykh_Zakariyya_Mosque&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Shaykh Zakariyya Mosque (page does not exist)">Shaykh Zakariyya Mosque</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Churches</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Church_of_Saint_Porphyrius" title="Church of Saint Porphyrius">Saint Porphyrius Orthodox Church</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Holy_Family_Church,_Gaza" title="Holy Family Church, Gaza">Holy Family Catholic Church</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gaza_Baptist_Church" title="Gaza Baptist Church">Gaza Baptist Church</a><sup>†</sup></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Historic buildings and institutions</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Gaza_synagogue" title="Gaza synagogue">Ancient Synagogue</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hamam_al-Sammara" title="Hamam al-Sammara">Hamam al-Sammara</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Qasr_al-Basha" title="Qasr al-Basha">Qasr al-Basha</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gold_Market" title="Gold Market">Qissariya Market</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Palestinian_Centre_for_Human_Rights" title="Palestinian Centre for Human Rights">Palestinian Centre for Human Rights</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Palestinian_Legislative_Council" title="Palestinian Legislative Council">Palestinian Legislative Council</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Health care and education</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Al-Ahli_Arab_Hospital" title="Al-Ahli Arab Hospital">Al-Ahli Arab Hospital</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Al-Aqsa_Hospital" class="mw-redirect" title="Al-Aqsa Hospital">Al-Aqsa Hospital</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Al-Aqsa_University" title="Al-Aqsa University">Al-Aqsa University</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Al-Azhar_University_%E2%80%93_Gaza" title="Al-Azhar University – Gaza">Al-Azhar University</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Al-Rantisi_Hospital" title="Al-Rantisi Hospital">Al-Rantisi Hospital</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Islamic_University_of_Gaza" title="Islamic University of Gaza">Islamic University</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Al-Shifa_Hospital" title="Al-Shifa Hospital">Al-Shifa Hospital</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kamal_Adwan_Hospital" class="mw-redirect" title="Kamal Adwan Hospital">Kamal Adwan Hospital</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Al-Awda_Hospital" title="Al-Awda Hospital">Al-Awda Hospital</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Turkish-Palestinian_Friendship_Hospital" title="Turkish-Palestinian Friendship Hospital">Turkish-Palestinian Friendship Hospital</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Recreation and cultural centers</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Al-Bustan_resort" title="Al-Bustan resort">Al-Bustan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bisan_City_tourist_village" title="Bisan City tourist village">Bisan City</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Al_Deira_Hotel" title="Al Deira Hotel">Al-Deira Hotel</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Faisal_Equestrian_Club" title="Faisal Equestrian Club">Faisal Equestrian Club</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gaza_Mall" title="Gaza Mall">Gaza Mall</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Al-Andalusia_mall" title="Al-Andalusia mall">Al-Andalusia mall</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gaza_Museum_of_Archaeology" class="mw-redirect" title="Gaza Museum of Archaeology">Gaza Museum of Archaeology</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Palestine_Stadium" title="Palestine Stadium">Palestine Stadium</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rashad_Shawa_Cultural_Center" title="Rashad Shawa Cultural Center">Rashad Shawa Cultural Center</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Roots_Club" title="Roots Club">Roots Club</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/As-Sadaka" title="As-Sadaka">As-Sadaka</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Gaza_YMCA&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Gaza YMCA (page does not exist)">Gaza YMCA</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Streets and squares</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ahmad_Orabi_Street&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Ahmad Orabi Street (page does not exist)">Ahmad Orabi Street</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Izz_Ad_Din_Al_Qassam_Street&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Izz Ad Din Al Qassam Street (page does not exist)">Izz Ad Din Al Qassam Street</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jamal_Abdel_Nasser_Street" title="Jamal Abdel Nasser Street">Jamal Abdel Nasser Street</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Omar_Mukhtar_Street" title="Omar Mukhtar Street">Omar Mukhtar Street</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Palestine_Square" title="Palestine Square">Palestine Square</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Salah_al-Din_Road" title="Salah al-Din Road">Salah al-Din Road</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Suq_Street&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Suq Street (page does not exist)">Suq Street</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Unknown_Soldier%27s_Square" title="Unknown Soldier's Square">Unknown Soldier's Square</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wehda_Street" title="Wehda Street">Wehda Street</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table></div> <div class="navbox-styles"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236075235"></div><div role="navigation" class="navbox" aria-labelledby="Gaza_Strip" style="padding:3px"><table class="nowraplinks mw-collapsible autocollapse navbox-inner" style="border-spacing:0;background:transparent;color:inherit"><tbody><tr><th scope="col" class="navbox-title" colspan="2" style="text-style:wrap;"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1239400231"><div class="navbar plainlinks hlist navbar-mini"><ul><li class="nv-view"><a href="/wiki/Template:Whole_Gaza_Strip" title="Template:Whole Gaza Strip"><abbr title="View this template">v</abbr></a></li><li class="nv-talk"><a href="/wiki/Template_talk:Whole_Gaza_Strip" title="Template talk:Whole Gaza Strip"><abbr title="Discuss this template">t</abbr></a></li><li class="nv-edit"><a href="/wiki/Special:EditPage/Template:Whole_Gaza_Strip" title="Special:EditPage/Template:Whole Gaza Strip"><abbr title="Edit this template">e</abbr></a></li></ul></div><div id="Gaza_Strip" style="font-size:114%;margin:0 4em"><a href="/wiki/Gaza_Strip" title="Gaza Strip">Gaza Strip</a></div></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">History</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Gaza_Strip" title="Gaza Strip">Gaza Strip</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/History_of_Gaza" title="History of Gaza">History of Gaza</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/History_of_Hamas" title="History of Hamas">History of Hamas</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Khan_Yunis_massacre" title="Khan Yunis massacre">Khan Yunis massacre</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Egyptian_occupation_of_the_Gaza_Strip" class="mw-redirect" title="Egyptian occupation of the Gaza Strip">Egyptian occupation of the Gaza Strip</a> <ul><li>see also: <a href="/wiki/Israeli_occupation_of_the_Sinai_Peninsula" title="Israeli occupation of the Sinai Peninsula">Israeli occupation of the Sinai Peninsula</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/All-Palestine_Government" title="All-Palestine Government">All-Palestine Government</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/All-Palestine_Protectorate" title="All-Palestine Protectorate">All-Palestine Protectorate</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gaza_Subdistrict,_Mandatory_Palestine" title="Gaza Subdistrict, Mandatory Palestine">Gaza Subdistrict in Mandatory Palestine</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Gaza_District" title="Gaza District">Gaza District</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Beersheba_Subdistrict,_Mandatory_Palestine" title="Beersheba Subdistrict, Mandatory Palestine">Beersheba Subdistrict</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jerusalem_Sanjak" title="Jerusalem Sanjak">Jerusalem Sanjak</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Destruction_of_cultural_heritage_during_the_Israeli_invasion_of_the_Gaza_Strip" title="Destruction of cultural heritage during the Israeli invasion of the Gaza Strip">Destruction of cultural heritage during the Israeli invasion of the Gaza Strip</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Archaeological_sites_destroyed_during_the_Gaza_genocide&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Archaeological sites destroyed during the Gaza genocide (page does not exist)">Archaeological sites destroyed during the Gaza genocide </a><span class="noprint" style="font-size:85%; font-style: normal;"> [<a href="https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%82%D8%B9_%D8%A3%D8%AB%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%A9_%D8%AF%D9%85%D8%B1%D9%87%D8%A7_%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%82%D8%B5%D9%81_%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%A5%D8%B3%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%A6%D9%8A%D9%84%D9%8A_%D9%81%D9%8A_%D8%AD%D8%B1%D8%A8_%D8%BA%D8%B2%D8%A9_2023" class="extiw" title="ar:مواقع أثرية دمرها القصف الإسرائيلي في حرب غزة 2023">ar</a>]</span></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="text-style:wrap;;width:1%;text-style:wrap;"><a href="/wiki/Mandatory_Palestine" title="Mandatory Palestine">Places in <br /> Mandatory <br /> Palestine</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><b><a href="/wiki/Gaza_Subdistrict,_Mandatory_Palestine" title="Gaza Subdistrict, Mandatory Palestine">Gaza Subdistrict, Mandatory Palestine</a></b></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Territory_acquired_during_Israel%27s_war_of_independence&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Territory acquired during Israel's war of independence (page does not exist)">Territory acquired during Israel's war of independence</a> <ul><li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Al-Majdal_Asqalan&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Al-Majdal Asqalan (page does not exist)">Al-Majdal Asqalan</a> (<a href="/wiki/Ashkelon#State_of_Israel" title="Ashkelon">Ashkelon § State of Israel</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Arab_Suqrir" title="Arab Suqrir">Arab Suqrir</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Barbara,_Gaza" title="Barbara, Gaza">Barbara</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Barqa,_Gaza" title="Barqa, Gaza">Barqa</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Al-Batani_al-Gharbi" title="Al-Batani al-Gharbi">al-Batani al-Gharbi</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Al-Batani_al-Sharqi" title="Al-Batani al-Sharqi">al-Batani al-Sharqi</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bayt_%27Affa" title="Bayt 'Affa">Bayt 'Affa</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bayt_Daras" title="Bayt Daras">Bayt Daras</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bayt_Jirja" title="Bayt Jirja">Bayt Jirja</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bayt_Tima" title="Bayt Tima">Bayt Tima</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bil%27in,_Gaza" title="Bil'in, Gaza">Bil'in</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Burayr" title="Burayr">Burayr</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dayr_Sunayd" title="Dayr Sunayd">Dayr Sunayd</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dimra" title="Dimra">Dimra</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Al-Faluja" title="Al-Faluja">al-Faluja</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hamama" title="Hamama">Hamama</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hatta,_Gaza" title="Hatta, Gaza">Hatta</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hiribya" title="Hiribya">Hiribya</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Huj,_Gaza" title="Huj, Gaza">Huj</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hulayqat" title="Hulayqat">Hulayqat</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ibdis" title="Ibdis">Ibdis</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Iraq_al-Manshiyya" title="Iraq al-Manshiyya">Iraq al-Manshiyya</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Iraq_Suwaydan" title="Iraq Suwaydan">Iraq Suwaydan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Isdud" title="Isdud">Isdud</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Al-Jaladiyya" title="Al-Jaladiyya">al-Jaladiyya</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Al-Jiyya" title="Al-Jiyya">al-Jiyya</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Julis,_Gaza" title="Julis, Gaza">Julis</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Al-Jura" title="Al-Jura">al-Jura</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jusayr" title="Jusayr">Jusayr</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Karatiyya" title="Karatiyya">Karatiyya</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kawfakha" title="Kawfakha">Kawfakha</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kawkaba" title="Kawkaba">Kawkaba</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Al-Khisas,_Gaza" title="Al-Khisas, Gaza">al-Khisas</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Al-Masmiyya_al-Kabira" title="Al-Masmiyya al-Kabira">al-Masmiyya al-Kabira</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Al-Masmiyya_al-Saghira" title="Al-Masmiyya al-Saghira">al-Masmiyya al-Saghira</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Al-Muharraqa" title="Al-Muharraqa">al-Muharraqa</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Najd,_Gaza" title="Najd, Gaza">Najd</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ni%27ilya" title="Ni'ilya">Ni'ilya</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Qastina" title="Qastina">Qastina</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Al-Sawafir_al-Gharbiyya" title="Al-Sawafir al-Gharbiyya">al-Sawafir al-Gharbiyya</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Al-Sawafir_al-Shamaliyya" title="Al-Sawafir al-Shamaliyya">al-Sawafir al-Shamaliyya</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Al-Sawafir_al-Sharqiyya" title="Al-Sawafir al-Sharqiyya">al-Sawafir al-Sharqiyya</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Simsim,_Gaza" title="Simsim, Gaza">Simsim</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Summil" title="Summil">Summil</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tall_al-Turmus" title="Tall al-Turmus">Tall al-Turmus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Yasur,_Gaza" title="Yasur, Gaza">Yasur</a></li></ul></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th id="Refugee_camps" scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Palestinian_refugee_camps" title="Palestinian refugee camps">Refugee camps</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Al-Shati_Camp" class="mw-redirect" title="Al-Shati Camp">Al-Shati</a> (Beach camp)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bureij" title="Bureij">Bureij</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Deir_al-Balah_Camp" title="Deir al-Balah Camp">Deir al-Balah</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jabalia_Camp" class="mw-redirect" title="Jabalia Camp">Jabalia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Khan_Yunis_Camp" class="mw-redirect" title="Khan Yunis Camp">Khan Yunis</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Maghazi_(camp)" class="mw-redirect" title="Maghazi (camp)">Maghazi</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nuseirat_Camp" class="mw-redirect" title="Nuseirat Camp">Nuseirat</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rafah_Camp" title="Rafah Camp">Rafah</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Canada_Camp" title="Canada Camp">Canada</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/List_of_cities_in_the_Gaza_Strip" title="List of cities in the Gaza Strip">Cities</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><b><a href="/wiki/Gaza_City" title="Gaza City">Gaza City</a></b></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Category:Streets_in_Gaza_City" title="Category:Streets in Gaza City">Streets in Gaza City</a> <ul><li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ahmad_Orabi_Street&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Ahmad Orabi Street (page does not exist)">Ahmad Orabi Street</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Izz_Ad_Din_Al_Qassam_Street&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Izz Ad Din Al Qassam Street (page does not exist)">Izz Ad Din Al Qassam Street</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Al-Jalla_Street&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Al-Jalla Street (page does not exist)">Al-Jalla Street</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jamal_Abdel_Nasser_Street" title="Jamal Abdel Nasser Street">Jamal Abdel Nasser Street</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Omar_Mukhtar_Street" title="Omar Mukhtar Street">Omar Mukhtar Street</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Palestine_Square" title="Palestine Square">Palestine Square</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Salah_al-Din_Road" title="Salah al-Din Road">Salah al-Din Road</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Suq_Street&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Suq Street (page does not exist)">Suq Street</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Unknown_Soldier%27s_Square" title="Unknown Soldier's Square">Unknown Soldier's Square</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wehda_Street" title="Wehda Street">Wehda Street</a></li></ul></li> <li><b><a href="/wiki/Gaza_City" title="Gaza City">Gaza City</a></b></li> <li><b><a href="/wiki/Category:Neighborhoods_of_Gaza_City" title="Category:Neighborhoods of Gaza City">Gaza City neighborhoods</a></b></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Judeide,_Gaza&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Judeide, Gaza (page does not exist)">Judeide</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nasser,_Gaza" title="Nasser, Gaza">Nasser</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Old_City,_Gaza" class="mw-redirect" title="Old City, Gaza">Old City</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Zaytun_Quarter" title="Zaytun Quarter">Zaytun Quarter</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Daraj_Quarter" title="Daraj Quarter">Daraj Quarter</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rimal" title="Rimal">Rimal</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sabra,_Gaza" title="Sabra, Gaza">Sabra</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Al-Saha" class="mw-redirect" title="Al-Saha">Al-Saha (As-Saha)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Al-Saha" class="mw-redirect" title="Al-Saha">Al-Saha</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Al-Shati_(camp)" class="mw-redirect" title="Al-Shati (camp)">al-Shati Camp</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Al-Shati_refugee_camp" title="Al-Shati refugee camp">Al-Shati refugee camp</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sheikh_Ijlin" title="Sheikh Ijlin">Sheikh Ijlin</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sheikh_Radwan" title="Sheikh Radwan">Sheikh Radwan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Shuja%27iyya" title="Shuja'iyya">Shuja'iyya</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tuffah" title="Tuffah">Tuffah</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tel_al-Hawa" title="Tel al-Hawa">Tel al-Hawa</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Turukman&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Turukman (page does not exist)">Turukman</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Zeitoun,_Gaza" class="mw-redirect" title="Zeitoun, Gaza">Zeitoun</a></li> <li><b><a href="/wiki/List_of_cities_in_the_Gaza_Strip" title="List of cities in the Gaza Strip">Cities elsewhere in the Gaza Strip</a></b></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bani_Suheila" title="Bani Suheila">Bani Suheila</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Beit_Hanoun" title="Beit Hanoun">Beit Hanoun</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Beit_Lahiya" class="mw-redirect" title="Beit Lahiya">Beit Lahiya</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Deir_al-Balah" title="Deir al-Balah">Deir al-Balah</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jabalia" title="Jabalia">Jabalia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Khan_Yunis" title="Khan Yunis">Khan Yunis</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rafah" title="Rafah">Rafah</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Governorates_of_the_Gaza_Strip" class="mw-redirect" title="Governorates of the Gaza Strip">Governorates of the Gaza Strip</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Gaza_Governorate" title="Gaza Governorate">Gaza</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Khan_Yunis_Governorate" title="Khan Yunis Governorate">Khan Yunis</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/North_Gaza_Governorate" title="North Gaza Governorate">North Gaza</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/North_Gaza_Governorate" title="North Gaza Governorate">North Gaza</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Deir_al-Balah_Governorate" title="Deir al-Balah Governorate">Deir al-Balah</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/North_Gaza_Governorate" title="North Gaza Governorate">North Gaza</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Khan_Yunis_Governorate" title="Khan Yunis Governorate">Khan Yunis</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rafah_Governorate" title="Rafah Governorate">Rafah</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="text-style:wrap;;width:1%;text-style:wrap;">Historic</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Hamam_al-Sammara" title="Hamam al-Sammara">Hamam al-Sammara</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Qasr_al-Basha" title="Qasr al-Basha">Qasr al-Basha</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gold_Market" title="Gold Market">Qissariya Market</a></li> <li>Ancient <a href="/wiki/Gaza_synagogue" title="Gaza synagogue">Gaza synagogue</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Archaeological_sites_destroyed_during_the_Gaza_genocide&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Archaeological sites destroyed during the Gaza genocide (page does not exist)">Archaeological sites destroyed during the Gaza genocide </a><span class="noprint" style="font-size:85%; font-style: normal;"> [<a href="https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%82%D8%B9_%D8%A3%D8%AB%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%A9_%D8%AF%D9%85%D8%B1%D9%87%D8%A7_%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%82%D8%B5%D9%81_%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%A5%D8%B3%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%A6%D9%8A%D9%84%D9%8A_%D9%81%D9%8A_%D8%AD%D8%B1%D8%A8_%D8%BA%D8%B2%D8%A9_2023" class="extiw" title="ar:مواقع أثرية دمرها القصف الإسرائيلي في حرب غزة 2023">ar</a>]</span></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="text-style:wrap;;width:1%;text-style:wrap;">Cemeteries</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Gaza_War_Cemetery" title="Gaza War Cemetery">Gaza War Cemetery</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Israeli_razing_of_cemeteries_and_necroviolence_against_Palestinians" title="Israeli razing of cemeteries and necroviolence against Palestinians">Israeli razing of cemeteries and necroviolence against Palestinians</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="text-style:wrap;;width:1%;text-style:wrap;">Mosques</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li>Gaza City:</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Aybaki_Mosque" title="Aybaki Mosque">Aybaki Mosque</a></li> <li><a class="mw-selflink selflink">Great Mosque of Gaza (Great Omari Mosque)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ibn_Marwan_Mosque" title="Ibn Marwan Mosque">Ibn Marwan Mosque</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ibn_Uthman_Mosque" title="Ibn Uthman Mosque">Ibn Uthman Mosque</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Katib_al-Wilaya_Mosque" title="Katib al-Wilaya Mosque">Katib al-Wilaya Mosque</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mahkamah_Mosque" title="Mahkamah Mosque">Mahkamah Mosque</a><sup>†</sup> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Ibrahim_al-Maqadma_Mosque_attack" title="Ibrahim al-Maqadma Mosque attack">Ibrahim al-Maqadma Mosque attack</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sayed_al-Hashim_Mosque" title="Sayed al-Hashim Mosque">Sayed al-Hashim Mosque</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Sham%27ah_Mosque&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Sham'ah Mosque (page does not exist)">Sham'ah Mosque</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Shaykh_Zakariyya_Mosque&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Shaykh Zakariyya Mosque (page does not exist)">Shaykh Zakariyya Mosque</a></li> <li>elsewhere:</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Abu_Khadra_Mosque" title="Abu Khadra Mosque">Abu Khadra Mosque</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Aybaki_Mosque" title="Aybaki Mosque">Aybaki Mosque</a></li> <li><a class="mw-selflink selflink">Great Mosque of Gaza</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ibn_Marwan_Mosque" title="Ibn Marwan Mosque">Ibn Marwan Mosque</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ibn_Uthman_Mosque" title="Ibn Uthman Mosque">Ibn Uthman Mosque</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Katib_al-Wilaya_Mosque" title="Katib al-Wilaya Mosque">Katib al-Wilaya Mosque</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sayed_al-Hashim_Mosque" title="Sayed al-Hashim Mosque">Sayed al-Hashim Mosque</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Al-Shamah_Mosque" title="Al-Shamah Mosque">Al-Shamah Mosque</a><sup>†</sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Umm_al-Nasr_Mosque" title="Umm al-Nasr Mosque">Umm al-Nasr Mosque</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="text-style:wrap;;width:1%;text-style:wrap;">Churches</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li>Gaza City:</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Church_of_Saint_Porphyrius" title="Church of Saint Porphyrius">Saint Porphyrius Orthodox Church</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Church_of_Saint_Porphyrius_airstrike" title="Church of Saint Porphyrius airstrike">Church of Saint Porphyrius airstrike</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Holy_Family_Church,_Gaza" title="Holy Family Church, Gaza">Holy Family Catholic Church</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gaza_Baptist_Church" title="Gaza Baptist Church">Gaza Baptist Church</a><sup>†</sup></li> <li>elsewhere in the Gaza Strip:</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="text-style:wrap;;width:1%;text-style:wrap;">Institutions</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Palestinian_Legislative_Council" title="Palestinian Legislative Council">Palestinian Legislative Council</a> (destroyed in 2023)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Palestinian_Centre_for_Human_Rights" title="Palestinian Centre for Human Rights">Palestinian Centre for Human Rights</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Al_Mezan_Center_for_Human_Rights" title="Al Mezan Center for Human Rights">Al Mezan Center for Human Rights</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="text-style:wrap;;width:1%;text-style:wrap;">Police <br /> and courts</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Capital_punishment_in_the_Gaza_Strip" title="Capital punishment in the Gaza Strip">Capital punishment in the Gaza Strip</a> <ul><li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Capital_punishment_in_Palestine&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Capital punishment in Palestine (page does not exist)">Capital punishment in Palestine</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Faiq_al-Mabhouh" class="mw-redirect" title="Faiq al-Mabhouh">Faiq al-Mabhouh</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Police_in_the_Israel%E2%80%93Hamas_war&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Police in the Israel–Hamas war (page does not exist)">Police in the Israel–Hamas war</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Societal_breakdown_in_the_Gaza_Strip_during_the_Israel%E2%80%93Hamas_war" title="Societal breakdown in the Gaza Strip during the Israel–Hamas war">Societal breakdown in the Gaza Strip during the Israel–Hamas war</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="text-style:wrap;;width:1%;text-style:wrap;">Economy</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Economy_of_the_Gaza_Strip" title="Economy of the Gaza Strip">Economy of the Gaza Strip</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Taxation_in_Palestine" class="mw-redirect" title="Taxation in Palestine">Taxation in Palestine</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="text-style:wrap;;width:1%;text-style:wrap;">Education</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Education_in_Gaza&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Education in Gaza (page does not exist)">Education in Gaza</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=UNWRA_schools&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="UNWRA schools (page does not exist)">UNWRA schools</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Christian_schools_in_the_Gaza_Strip&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Christian schools in the Gaza Strip (page does not exist)">Christian schools</a></li> <li>Gaza City:</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Al-Azhar_University_%E2%80%93_Gaza" title="Al-Azhar University – Gaza">Al-Azhar University</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Islamic_University_of_Gaza" title="Islamic University of Gaza">Islamic University</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Al-Aqsa_University" title="Al-Aqsa University">Al-Aqsa University</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="text-style:wrap;;width:1%;text-style:wrap;">Libraries</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Deir_al-Balah_Municipality_Public_Library&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Deir al-Balah Municipality Public Library (page does not exist)">Deir al-Balah Municipality Public Library</a><span class="noprint" style="font-size:85%; font-style: normal;"> [<a href="https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D9%83%D8%AA%D8%A8%D8%A9_%D8%A8%D9%84%D8%AF%D9%8A%D8%A9_%D8%AF%D9%8A%D8%B1_%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%A8%D9%84%D8%AD_%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B9%D8%A7%D9%85%D8%A9" class="extiw" title="ar:مكتبة بلدية دير البلح العامة">ar</a>]</span></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Gaza_Municipality_Public_Library&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Gaza Municipality Public Library (page does not exist)">Gaza Municipality Public Library</a><span class="noprint" style="font-size:85%; font-style: normal;"> [<a href="https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D9%83%D8%AA%D8%A8%D8%A9_%D8%A8%D9%84%D8%AF%D9%8A%D8%A9_%D8%BA%D8%B2%D8%A9_%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B9%D8%A7%D9%85%D8%A9" class="extiw" title="ar:مكتبة بلدية غزة العامة">ar</a>]</span></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Khan_Yunis_Municipality_Public_Library&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Khan Yunis Municipality Public Library (page does not exist)">Khan Yunis Municipality Public Library</a><span class="noprint" style="font-size:85%; font-style: normal;"> [<a href="https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D9%83%D8%AA%D8%A8%D8%A9_%D8%A8%D9%84%D8%AF%D9%8A%D8%A9_%D8%AE%D8%A7%D9%86_%D9%8A%D9%88%D9%86%D8%B3_%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B9%D8%A7%D9%85%D8%A9" class="extiw" title="ar:مكتبة بلدية خان يونس العامة">ar</a>]</span></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Rafah_Municipality_Public_Library&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Rafah Municipality Public Library (page does not exist)">Rafah Municipality Public Library</a><span class="noprint" style="font-size:85%; font-style: normal;"> [<a href="https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D9%83%D8%AA%D8%A8%D8%A9_%D8%A8%D9%84%D8%AF%D9%8A%D8%A9_%D8%B1%D9%81%D8%AD_%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B9%D8%A7%D9%85%D8%A9" class="extiw" title="ar:مكتبة بلدية رفح العامة">ar</a>]</span></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Samir_Mansour_Library&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Samir Mansour Library (page does not exist)">Samir Mansour Library</a><span class="noprint" style="font-size:85%; font-style: normal;"> [<a href="https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D9%83%D8%AA%D8%A8%D8%A9_%D8%B3%D9%85%D9%8A%D8%B1_%D9%85%D9%86%D8%B5%D9%88%D8%B1_(%D8%BA%D8%B2%D8%A9)" class="extiw" title="ar:مكتبة سمير منصور (غزة)">ar</a>]</span></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="text-style:wrap;;width:1%;text-style:wrap;">Health care</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Gaza_Ministry_of_Health" class="mw-redirect" title="Gaza Ministry of Health">Gaza Ministry of Health</a></li> <li>Gaza City:</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Al-Ahli_Arab_Hospital" title="Al-Ahli Arab Hospital">Al-Ahli Arab Hospital</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Al-Aqsa_Hospital" class="mw-redirect" title="Al-Aqsa Hospital">Al-Aqsa Hospital</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Al-Rantisi_Hospital" title="Al-Rantisi Hospital">Al-Rantisi Hospital</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Al-Shifa_Hospital" title="Al-Shifa Hospital">Al-Shifa Hospital</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kamal_Adwan_Hospital" class="mw-redirect" title="Kamal Adwan Hospital">Kamal Adwan Hospital</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Al-Awda_Hospital" title="Al-Awda Hospital">Al-Awda Hospital</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Turkish-Palestinian_Friendship_Hospital" title="Turkish-Palestinian Friendship Hospital">Turkish-Palestinian Friendship Hospital</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2024_Gaza_Strip_polio_epidemic" title="2024 Gaza Strip polio epidemic">2024 Gaza Strip polio epidemic</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="text-style:wrap;;width:1%;text-style:wrap;">Recreation <br /> and culture</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li>Gaza City <a href="/wiki/Gaza_Museum_of_Archaeology" class="mw-redirect" title="Gaza Museum of Archaeology">Gaza Museum of Archaeology</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Al-Bustan_resort" title="Al-Bustan resort">Al-Bustan resort</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bisan_City_tourist_village" title="Bisan City tourist village">Bisan City tourist village</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Al_Deira_Hotel" title="Al Deira Hotel">Al Deira Hotel</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Faisal_Equestrian_Club" title="Faisal Equestrian Club">Faisal Equestrian Club</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gaza_Mall" title="Gaza Mall">Gaza Mall</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Al-Andalusia_mall" title="Al-Andalusia mall">Al-Andalusia mall</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Palestine_Stadium" title="Palestine Stadium">Palestine Stadium</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rashad_Shawa_Cultural_Center" title="Rashad Shawa Cultural Center">Rashad Shawa Cultural Center</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Roots_Club" title="Roots Club">Roots Club</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/As-Sadaka" title="As-Sadaka">As-Sadaka</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Gaza_YMCA&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Gaza YMCA (page does not exist)">Gaza YMCA</a></li> <li>Gaza Strip</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="text-style:wrap;;width:1%;text-style:wrap;">Transport <br /> and trade</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Yasser_Arafat_International_Airport" title="Yasser Arafat International Airport">Yasser Arafat International Airport</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Port_of_Gaza" title="Port of Gaza">Port of Gaza</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gaza-Israel_barrier" class="mw-redirect" title="Gaza-Israel barrier">Gaza-Israel barrier</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Erez_crossing" class="mw-redirect" title="Erez crossing">Erez crossing</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kerem_Shalom_crossing" class="mw-redirect" title="Kerem Shalom crossing">Kerem Shalom crossing</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Egypt-Palestine_relations" class="mw-redirect" title="Egypt-Palestine relations">Egypt-Palestine relations</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Rafah_crossing" class="mw-redirect" title="Rafah crossing">Rafah crossing</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Blockade_of_the_Gaza_Strip" title="Blockade of the Gaza Strip">Blockade of the Gaza Strip</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Gaza_smuggling_tunnels" class="mw-redirect" title="Gaza smuggling tunnels">Gaza smuggling tunnels</a></li></ul></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="text-style:wrap;;width:1%;text-style:wrap;">Environment</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Wadi_Gaza" class="mw-redirect" title="Wadi Gaza">Wadi Gaza</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Environmental_impact_of_the_Israel%E2%80%93Hamas_war" title="Environmental impact of the Israel–Hamas war">Environmental impact of the Israel–Hamas war</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="text-style:wrap;;width:1%;text-style:wrap;">Occupation</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Gush_Katif" title="Gush Katif">Gush Katif</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Israeli_disengagement_from_Gaza_Strip" class="mw-redirect" title="Israeli disengagement from Gaza Strip">Israeli unilateral disengagement</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Israeli_occupation_of_the_Gaza_Strip" title="Israeli occupation of the Gaza Strip">Israeli occupation</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Israeli_invasion_of_the_Gaza_Strip" title="Israeli invasion of the Gaza Strip">2023 Israeli invasion</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Netzarim_Corridor" title="Netzarim Corridor">Netzarim Corridor</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Philadelphi_Corridor" title="Philadelphi Corridor">Philadelphi Corridor</a></li></ul></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="text-style:wrap;;width:1%;text-style:wrap;">Visitors</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Rachel_Corrie" title="Rachel Corrie">Rachel Corrie</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gaza_Freedom_Flotilla" title="Gaza Freedom Flotilla">Gaza Freedom Flotilla</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Gaza_flotilla_raid" title="Gaza flotilla raid">Gaza flotilla raid</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Antony_Loewenstein" title="Antony Loewenstein">Antony Loewenstein</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Walkley_Book_Award#The_Palestine_Laboratory" title="Walkley Book Award">Walkley Book Award #The Palestine Laboratory</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/World_Central_Kitchen_aid_convoy_attack" title="World Central Kitchen aid convoy attack">World Central Kitchen</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Demographics</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Palestinian_Christians" title="Palestinian Christians">Palestinian Christians</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Palestinian_clans" class="mw-redirect" title="Palestinian clans">Palestinian clans</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Doghmush_clan" title="Doghmush clan">Doghmush clan</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/History_of_the_Jews_in_Gaza_City" title="History of the Jews in Gaza City">History of the Jews in Gaza City</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Israeli_settlers" class="mw-redirect" title="Israeli settlers">Israeli settlers</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Israeli_disengagement_from_the_Gaza_Strip" title="Israeli disengagement from the Gaza Strip">Israeli disengagement from the Gaza Strip</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Proposed_Israeli_resettlement_of_the_Gaza_Strip" title="Proposed Israeli resettlement of the Gaza Strip">Proposed Israeli resettlement of the Gaza Strip</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/LGBT_rights_in_the_Gaza_Strip" class="mw-redirect" title="LGBT rights in the Gaza Strip">LGBT rights in the Gaza Strip</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Al_Haq" class="mw-redirect" title="Al Haq">Al Haq</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Al_Qaws" title="Al Qaws">Al Qaws</a></li></ul></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Births</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li>1985</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ahmed_Moor" title="Ahmed Moor">Ahmed Moor</a></li> <li>1997</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rouzan_al-Najjar" class="mw-redirect" title="Rouzan al-Najjar">Rouzan al-Najjar</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Deaths</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><b>2003</b></li> <li>March</li> <li>16</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rachel_Corrie#Death" title="Rachel Corrie">Rachel Corrie § Death</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/MV_Rachel_Corrie" title="MV Rachel Corrie">MV Rachel 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