GAZAN CHRISTIANS BURY THEIR FIRST CAUSALITY OF THE GAZAN HOLOCAUST , A 60 YEAR OLD MOTHER and Wife! This is not an attack exclusively on Muslims this is an attack on anyone in the way of what Israelis desire for themselves. If we leave, that’s exactly what the Israelis want. Anyway, where are we supposed to go? This is my homeland, he said. We Christians have been in Gaza for more than 1,000 years, and we’re staying. -Relative of Victim Gaza’s Christians bury their first Holocaust Victim | July 27, 2014 The Christian community in Gaza City, like its counterparts elsewhere in the Middle East, has been shrinking because of both conflict and unemployment. The ancient Mediterranean seafront city once had a thriving Christian community, especially under British-mandated Palestine that ended in 1948 with the creation of the Jewish state. Jalila Ayyad was the first Christian victim of the GAZAN HOLOCAUST, that was intensified only a few weeks ago. Jalila Ayyad’s widower George still had a black eye and bloodstains on his shirt as he processed ahead of her coffin, hours after the air strike that destroyed their home. She was survived by her husband and two sons, one of which could not attend her funeral because he is in critical conditions from wounds he suffered. Jalila and her family were not at all connected to Hamas but targeted regardless in an Israeli airstrike Sunday afternoon. Her coffin was simple — white with a black cross — it was carried reverently down the marble stairs of the cemetery, and into the chapel of the Saint Porphyrius Greek Orthodox church in Gaza City. There are massacres here every day. This is what happens to the Palestinian people. Where’s the world, where’s the international community in all this? The bombs hit and kill — they don’t discriminate between civilian or militant, said one member of the parish. George Ayyads relative, agreed fully and dismissed the idea that Jalila’s death would force more of the declining Christian population out of Gaza. If we leave, that’s exactly what the Israelis want. Anyway, where are we supposed to go? This is my homeland, he said. We Christians have been in Gaza for more than 1,000 years, and we’re staying. The community’s first casualty, Jalila Ayyad, was born in Jerusalem and also had French nationality.” (via AFP) Pictures from the funeral of Jalila Ayyad, 60, the first Christian Palestinian, whose body was found under the rubble of her home after an Israeli airstike, at Saint Porfirios Church in Gaza City on July 27, 2014. The debris of a house belonging to Ayyad family, which was targeted in an Israeli air strike, is also seen above. (Pictures by Suhaib Salem/Reuter
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