Beloved Gaza bookshop becomes a casualty of Israel-Hamas conflict

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Beloved Gaza bookshop becomes a casualty of Israel-Hamas conflict. “The bookstore was like my soul,” says Samir Mansour, who founded it 21 years ago.

At least 230 Palestinians and 12 Israelis have been killed in the fighting, according to officials on both sides. As many as 184 residential buildings and 1,335 housing units in Gaza have been destroyed, according to the Government Information Office in Gaza on Thursday.

To Palestinians, the bookstore played a key role as a center of intellectual life, and its destruction represents the wider loss of culture in Gaza. Alareer has shopped in the store since 1997, when he started his studies at the Islamic University of Gaza. In addition to selling many titles in English, he said, the shop often supplied titles requested by customers and made them affordable, something that other local bookstores weren’t able to do.He now worries that “people won’t be able to buy the books they want, people won’t be able to read certain novels for their university studies, especially English majors.

In the years since, Basher, an English teacher, has built a library in her Jabalia home largely with books bought at the store.

 

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So sorry for you and your community's lose. When we ever learn. So heartbreaking. War after war. Noone wins. So ready for Jehovah to intervein.

Why do you guys keep spam posting the same stories over and over again for days at a time? This is the 5th or 6th time I see this one as 'new' when it's already a week old.

Destruction of a bookstore was not only a loss to shop owner, but also Gaza, Israeli, Middle East, and whole world. Knowledge contained in those books could have produced a doctor, teacher, poet, engineer, or diplomat. We will never know! Instead, it only fuels a burning fire.

Ask for financial assistance in building a new bookstore!!! People love to read.📚📚📚💰

if you're looking for stories cuz cleasry you're running out of important ones, send a reporter to Israel to interview kids who were born and then raised in a routine of alarms and 15 seconds running for cover

You should not allow hamas to fire rockets from your soul…..

Fight to expel Hamas from Gaza and you will have peace of mind.

Thank HAMAS for that.

Heard Mein Kampf was their best seller 😪

They sold children’s books made in Iran. Books that say Israel and USA are Satan. Why is NBC promoting this crap? Palestinian is full of terrorists who want to murder Americans.

Hamas is to blame. They indiscriminately fired THOUSANDS of rockets at civilian targets in Israel. Are the Israelis simply supposed to just let them?

Get the hammas outta Gaza so the Palestinians can live in peace with Isreal by supporting that outfit Peace ✌️ can never be attained

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'Israeli terrorism destroys innocent persons business.' There fixed it for you.

The State of Israel is the best place for Muslims In Yemen Syria Lebanon China thousands of Muslims are killed every day and the world is silent

Is there a Go Fund Me or similar endeavor to raise money to rebuild?

I think you mean a casualty of Israeli terrorism.

From when Arabs read books. They are one of most ignorant nations on earth.

We pray to end this war.

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This is the news I started my day with. I am already sad again on how things are doing in the world.😔

There is a gofundme to help rebuild the bookstores that were destroyed 'The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history' - George Orwell

GRIEF

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This is not conflict this is oppression of Palestine by isreal Isreal_is_a_terrorist_state IsrealiTerrorism FreeGaza Free_Palestine Gazaunderattack

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War will never bring good to anyone...😑😑😑

Stop calling it conflict. It is war crime and terrorism by occupier state 'Israel', on innocent civilians of Palestine, funded by USA taxpayer's money.

AymanM Destruction of a media center and bookstore. The acts of savages.

Then stoop attacking Israel and you won’t get what you deserve

Sure. He founded it then, but allowed others to occupy his basement and store weapons. Or let militants to use his facility as a headquarters for their units, or anything else as similar... That is the biggest problem in Gaza...

Very sad loss...but so are all the deaths; especially of the children!💔😢

Any way we can contribute to his store ?

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This occupation is costing a lot for both sides. Especially Palestinians. They lost everything.

MSNBC How many innocent people are suffering because of corrupt leaders and their political power play? The people of Israel and Palestine are not to blame for this, but they alone pay the consequences.

WAR CRIME

So...is Israel going to claim that Hamas extremists were using the bookstore as a hideout? These 'pinpoint' missile strikes look awfully arbitrary to me.

Guess his souls was worh less to him than rebelling against the terror group Hamas grip and intentions. Bless Israel and the free world.

NBC! Hey ya Hippocratic jerks. Where is the story about Palestinian AHOLES in LA attacking Jewish diners? Silence is violence remember?

Hw many victim cards? Goshsh..

Thats F’d up Israel

Read this essay:

This current war: ---Started May 10, 2021 when Palestine Terrorists simultaneously attacked Israel from Gaza and from Palestine cities within Israel. ---Extended in May 17-18,2021 when Arab Terrorists attacked from southern Lebanon against northern Israel.

The people should revolt against Hamas who started this shit of shooting rockets. When Cologne got bombed, Germans posted fliers around the city saying thanks to Hitler! Maybe the Palestinians could do the same in Gaza: 'Thanks Hamas'.

poor innocent books. Feel so bad Israel should learn from Hamas & be humanitarian save books attack civilians by firing 3000 plus rockets on civil areas. Atleast books are safe when does Lifes of Jews or Hindus matter in the world. If u want peace, kick Hamas out. TheMossadIL

Hamas terrorists atrocities

Not surprised to hear Israel enjoys burning books.

Thousand of libraries, educational institutions were demolished in India by the Muslim invaders. The people of India, who are afraid to condemn those Muslim invaders do not even have the right to condemn Israel.

Guess the locals will have to buy Mein Kampf elsewhere then.🤷‍♂️

Hamas used it as shield !!! 😂😂

Херово!!!

It was self defense - books contain history of what happens to evil empires, so to defend against that history repeating itself better to eliminate the books.

Ohhh I don't understand why unrestrained NBC is hesitating to speak the truth.....

The real culprit of this war crime is US.

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