Mosques in the Gaza Strip will reopen to worshippers on Wednesday (June 3) after more than two months of closure due to coronavirus.

The announcement was made by the Ministry of Religious Affairs on Monday (June 1) after Palestinian authorities shut all mosques in late March to prevent the spread of COVID-19.

However, the Health Ministry called on all worshippers to wear face masks and maintaining social distancing rules to help stem the spread of the disease.

People who have health problems or chronic diseases, the elderly, children, and people in self-isolation were also urged to stay at home.

people allowed to attend Eid al-Fitr prayers at mosques within certain protective measures introduced by the Health Ministry to maintain public safety. People who have health problems or chronic diseases, elderly people, children and people who have just finished their self-isolation after coming to the Gaza Strip from abroad were urged to stay at home.

The instructions basically include maintaining social distance, wearing protective masks, and avoiding hand shaking. The worshipers will also have to bring their own prayer rugs.

irst interview / Citizen - Muhammad Zaida

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A very great thing is to open the mosque to perform the Eid al-Fitr prayer. We thank them and all the love for them, but the month of Ramadan was very difficult for us because of the prayer in the homes and the people used to pray in the mosques and rise in the mosques in the prayer and worship.

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Several measures have been taken, the most prominent of which is sterilization of mosques before the worshipers enter the mosques, sterilizing the worshipers themselves and wearing the muzzle, and that each worshiper comes with his own prayer rug in order to pray Ai and conduct a spacing between the worshipers and a distance of not less than a meter.



Second interview/ Abu Yahya / Organizing Committee

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I opened the mosques, praise be to God, it was a very great joy for children, old people, women and youth. It was a wonderful joy with magnifications. Praise be to God. And God willing, our Lord honors us to open mosques and away from us the Corona pandemic, and despite the Corona virus we will celebrate the Eid al-Fitr.