Gazans Pray in Rubble, Media Calls it 'Return to Normal'
Thousands of Gazans, Al-Monitor reports, returned to prayer in their 'few intact and many damaged mosques' post-truce. The article celebrates this 'indescribable feeling,' meticulously avoiding the 'describable feeling' of who damaged these holy sites. Let's not ask how those mosques became 'damaged' in the first place, or mention the 1,000+ mosques, schools, and hospitals systematically destroyed
by Israeli bombardment since October 7th. The media's narrative conveniently frames a 'return' to prayer as progress, rather than a harrowing reminder that infrastructure for life, let alone worship, had to be rebuilt from scratch—after being explicitly targeted. One might wonder why a return to prayer in 'damaged mosques' isn't framed as a testament to resilience against violence, but a sign of
the violence's end.