PALESTINE: Widow of Rami Ayyad gives birth to daughter
5th March, 2008
.jpg) Pauline Ayyad, the widow of Rami Ayyad (manager of the Palestinian Bible Society bookshop in Gaza) who was murdered last October, has given birth to a baby girl. The baby has been named Sama (meaning "heaven" in Arabic), "because her father is in heaven".
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PALESTINE: Bible Society Book shop Manager murdered
11th October, 2007.jpg) Rami Ayyad, 32, manager of the Bible Society bookshop in Gaza, was kidnapped on Saturday afternoon as he closed the bookshop. He made two telephone calls to his family later that evening – stating that he had been kidnapped but would be home later. However, his body was found by police in the city early on Sunday morning. He had been shot in the head and had multiple stab wounds.
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PALESTINE: Bomb attack on Bible bookshop
23rd April, 2007 The only Christian bookstore in Gaza, operated by the Palestinian Bible Society, has been bombed again. The bomb, which exploded in the early hours of Sunday 15 April, caused no injuries but destroyed much of the downstairs shop area. Damage exceeded that of the two small pipe bombs that unknown terrorists detonated in front of the shop in February 2006, which destroyed its steel and glass doors.
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PALESTINE: Gaza Bible Society re-opens
12th April, 2006.jpg) The Palestinian Bible Society's bookshop in Gaza reopened on Monday 3 April, after a five-week closure in response to terrorists' threats to bomb the building, reports Hanna Massad, pastor of Gaza Baptist Church.
Hanna's wife, Suhad, is the Bible Society bookshop's director. She said the bookshop reopened with permission from the Gaza Interior Ministry, over the objections of the building's owner.
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PALESTINE: Another Bible Society building attacked
15th March, 2006 On 28 February, Islamic terrorists attacked the Bible Society's student centre, Living Stones, in the West Bank university town of Bir Zeit, smashing windows, hurling two Molotov cocktails into the building and scrawling red graffiti on the exterior walls in large, Arabic script that read, "Leave our land and get out of here," "We are following in your footsteps, O Prophet Muhammad" and "Allah is greatest".
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PALESTINE: Bible Society attacked with bombs and threats
27th February, 2006|
As tensions mount throughout the Middle East in the wake of publication of cartoons demeaning the Prophet Muhammad, serious threats have been brought against the Bible Society in Gaza. A few masked and armed militants recently distributed fliers around the area where the bookstore is located. The flier included a threat to the landlord that if he does not evict the Bible Society by tomorrow (28Feb) they will blow up the whole building.
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