Bournemouth Imam and Muslim community leader Mr Yassin Majid, said: "The Muslim community is very sad for the people of Gaza and empathises. There is not problem between Muslims and Jews, the problem is who occupied land.
"I do not support Hamas, but I believe that Palestinians resist Israel in order to get back their country which has been taken a long time ago.
"Hamas won a democratic election with the 70% of votes. This represents a real picture and real wish of Palestinians not to not just be guests on their own land, but owners. For too much time Palestinians have lived in extremely poor life conditions, there is no food, no medicines and even no electricity. Enough is enough," said Mr Yassin.
Many believe this was no spontaneous operation, no mere response to the recent firing of rockets on Israel. It is suspected in the preceding half year of calm, while warning that Hamas was arming itself, Israel carefully planned the attack to extract the highest possible price.
Mr Yassin said: "The most suffered in this war were innocent Palestinian children. Israel did not even care about UN resolution. They were not afraid of God. All concerned parties urged them to restore the ceasefire immediately in order to save children. The Muslim community in Bournemouth is still praying for justice and happiness in the Middle East."
About a third of those killed in Gaza have been children - 311, according to the Palestinian Health Ministry. Around 1,550 of the 4,500 wounded have also been children according to figures from the UN, published in Israeli newspaper Haaretz.
Israel's Gaza campaign was no solo performance. The step was coordinated with Jordan and Egypt. However who did the ordinary people in these countries support? Tens of thousands of people made their way to the streets to demonstrate against the Israeli military action in Gaza. About 2,500 Lebanese and Palestinians protested peacefully in Beirut and hundreds of demonstrators in neighbouring Syria shouted insults at the both the Jewish state and Arab leaders.
Chabad Lubavitch, a Bournemouth Jewish community organisation, was refusing to comment on the events in Gaza.
Rabbi Neil Amswych, from Bournemouth Reform Synagogue, said: "Israel faces a constant attack of missiles from Gaza and every state has the right to defend itself from attack and we must not forget that this action by Israel is a response to aggression, not the other way round."
He also added: "Both Israelis and Palestinians are suffering. At some point, we should all talk about what the underlying causes of that suffering are."
The ceasefire has been declared by both sides with a number of conditions. The war is finished by now, but the question still remains: will be ever peace on the blessed Palestinian-Israeli earth?
Yassin Majid does not believe in it anymore.
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