Iranian missiles that struck Haifa, Israel, broken a historic native mosque on Friday morning and injured a number of Imams there.
Shortly after dawn, Iran launched a barrage of 20-30 missiles in three waves, based on Israeli Army Radio. Sirens rang within the north after which throughout the nation. Most missiles had been intercepted by Israeli air protection. The missiles that struck Haifa, a port metropolis that homes Arabs and Jews facet by facet, had been the one ones that brought about accidents on the bottom.
One of the broken buildings was discovered to be the Arjirina Mosque, one of many metropolis’s most essential Muslim locations of worship.
The Muslim clergy, or Imam, was on the mosque, presumably previous to the weekly Jumaa Service held on Friday.
Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Saar condemned the assaults by the Iranian regime on civilian inhabitants centres, notably non secular buildings, as “warfare crimes.”
Israeli President Isaac Herzog expressed comparable anger. In a press release, President Herzog stated:
The Aljarina Mosque, situated within the Wadinisna neighborhood of Haifa, was attacked by Iranian missiles, and wounded Muslim clergy and worshipers in prayer.
This outrageous assault occurred in Haifa, a metropolis that stands as a logo of coexistence between Jews, Muslims, Christians, Druze, Saqasians and Bahai.
They attempt to kill the Israelites from all faiths.
We defend all Israelis. All faiths are included.
According to the Islamic Cultural Heritage web site, “Al Jirina Mosque, Al Nasr Mosque, or the good mosque of Haifa, [is] An historic mosque relationship again to the Ottoman interval in Palestine. Located within the outdated city of Haifa. It is the second oldest mosque in Haifa after the small mosque. ”
Neither Iran nor the proxies of terrorists resembling Hamas and Hezbollah distinguish between Jews and Arabs, Christians and Muslims within the assaults.