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Friday 04 Dec 2015 - 16:49 Makkah mean time-22-2-1437
Gaza City, (IINA) - Turkey’s Religious Affairs Directorate announced on Wednesday that it would rebuild nine mosques destroyed in last year’s Israeli military onslaught on the blockaded Gaza Strip, Anadolu Agency (AA) reported.
Deputy Directorate Chief Hasan Kamil Yilmaz told AA that the total cost of the project would be $4.5 million, $1.2 million of which had already been disbursed.
Yilmaz, who made the announcement in Gaza, visited the Turkish-Palestinian Friendship Hospital, which was built by the Turkish government more than two years ago at a total cost of $34 million.
According to Palestine’s Ministry of Religious Endowments, 64 mosques were destroyed during Israel’s devastating military offensive last year while another 150 were partially damaged.
The Israeli army pounded the blockaded Gaza Strip from the air, land and sea for seven weeks in July and August of 2014.
Along with killing more than 2,150 Palestinians and injuring thousands of others, Israel left vast swathes of Gaza's critical infrastructure in ruins, most of which has yet to be rebuilt.
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