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Hamza’s brother Zain reached out to me to help share Hamza’s fundraiser. Hamza is a Palestinian nurse urgently raising money to help evacuate he and his family from Rafah. He has only made $2,129 out of his $35,000 goal! Please share and donate, and if you can’t donate, please still share!

Hamza’s Twitter/X account: @almofty_hamza

From Hamza’s GFM:

Hi, my name is Hamza, and I am raising funds to rebuild my family's home and support my loved ones during this war.

As you may already know, more than 30,000 Palestinians have been killed in Gaza. I have lost more than a hundred relatives, many still missing, and my family trapped in Gaza can attest to countless more coworkers, community members, and friends they have seen killed firsthand.

Prior to the war, I was an active member of the community. I have a passion for helping others, and for this reason, I was a nurse practicing in hospitals around Gaza. Outside of nursing, I was also a volleyball player for the Palestinian national team. After the war broke out, I volunteered at hospitals to treat those injured in the airstrikes until I was forced to stop to move with his family.

My brother, Zein El Dein, had taken courses in web development and dreamt of becoming a programmer. His dreams were cut short after the school he went to was destroyed and flipped his entire life around.

My sister, Islam, earned top marks in school that landed her in a program for engineering at her local university. Her studies were paused during the war, and with the bombardment of that university, she is trying to find somewhere outside of Gaza to continue her education and pursuit of that dream.

Omar and Mariam are both children who were still in grade school when the war broke out. Their education was not only put on pause, but were forced to grow up and try to understand why they were being displaced, why they struggled to get food, and why their friends and neighbors were being killed in airstrikes.

My father, Talaat, was pursuing a PHD in nursing at the time the war broke out. The university has been destroyed, and he has been trying to take care of his family since.

We are currently staying in Rafah, and below are pictures of my original home, now destroyed.

Many of the people that used to be around me are either confirmed dead, missing because they are trapped under the rubble, or displaced just like us. These are people who played alongside me on the national team, classmates who were pursuing their passion for nursing just like I was, and people who volunteered at hospitals when the war broke out.

Losing so many of the close friends each of us had to this war has only added to the suffering of the destruction of our home and our displacement to the refugee camps in Rafah.

As you can imagine, I cannot watch my family continue to be in this miserable condition after we lost what was everything. So, I turn to this fundraiser, and to the global community to rebuild what was destroyed and relieve my family of their suffering with financial support.

Please donate generously, share this widely, and pray for their safety and evacuation. Anything helps, and all contributions, no matter the sum, bring us closer to the goal of achieving our dream.

Thank you, salam

#i trust this fundraiser is legitimate & looked into it myself #palestine #gaza #free palestine

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Day 3 : Kung Food

Class time! After meeting the students of the French department, we went to the Summer Palace. And no, what you would call a Palace is not anything of what you have EVER seen before. But before, we stumbled across a tiny stall where something we’ve been looking for since the beginning of trip was. Yes: insects. And tiny animals. Snakes, seahorses, crickets, grasshoppers, scorpions and all the package. Before we could even realize what was going on, we felt the presence of Dr Ross begging us to go ahead and promising us we will get to eat insects later.

After meeting Linda, our guide, we entered the Summer Palace. I lack the words to describe it. Even AUI is not as big as it is. After checking it up, the palace covers 2.9 km² and was built by impress Cixi (#justgirlythings). The palace is an architectural marvel expanding over a gorgeous lake. The buildings are all as beautiful as the surrounding nature, and the promenade near the lake shore is appeasing and joyful. The sunny weather also made us in an even better mood, as again, we stopped in so many palaces to take funny pictures, or ones that are “instagrammable”.

Thank you for babysitting us!

At our last stop in the palace – that we could not visit in its entirety because it would have taken us the whole day – we decided to take a group picture (Yes, we have a lot of those, and I bet you wanna see them). This where a guard approached and asked us if we could take a picture with him too. And then a random man crashed in. And two other women. And three others. And then we were 20 in the picture. It was amazing, we laughed so much and had a great time, before they took Sana and I to take picture with them too #famousmuch? To be honest, I have never had this much fun, and needless to say that this kind of things would boost up your confidence to a level you could not imagine

At the moment we realized that everyone was taking pictures of us

After a nice lunch, we went to the long awaited WangFujing. Wangfujing is a shopping center with many malls and many shops with brands we were hoping to find clothes at a cheaper price than in Morocco. Yes, the struggle is real. After being released in the wild, we fiercely entered all the shops we found in our path. And then, the moment we have all been waiting for finally came about. Tom took us to the food street in Wangfujing, famous for its “exotic food”. At the first occasion, Omar, Hamza, Amine and I took a brochette of scorpions. They were still alive when fried, which rendered the experience even more exciting. and gross.

So many asked me about it so once for all: there is no such thing as “yo, it tastes like scorpion”. Scorpions have no taste. It just felt like it was too greasy (because it was dip fried), and salty because of the spices. However, I am not going to lie, I felt everything, and this is when I freaked out. You could feel the tail, the legs, and the pincers and that was weird. The others took cicadas, but that was the redline for me. I know for facts that those are very chewy and I was not ready for this kind of experience.

Finally, we went to the Kung Fu Show at the red theater. This artistic show combined visual effects, a very interesting story line and amazing Kung Fu choreographies. The show was impressing and surprising, as the set up was incredibly innovating and original. Actors would come out from everywhere in the theater, sometimes taking us by surprise! The voiceover also spoke in English, which made the piece very understandable. It was forbidden, but I did take videos, I HAD TO!

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Best Pakistani Dramas

Best Pakistani Dramas, Pakistani shows have taken huge steps throughout the most recent decade, increasing present expectations for quality composition, advancement and authenticity.

No, we don't mean the daytime cleansers that are brimming with saas/bahu sazishes (mother by marriage/little girl in-law plotting) however the ideal time contributions of our significant channels.

Steadily expanding web access and the spread of web-based media have put any show simply a tick away. A sizable part of the Indian public and the overall subcontinental diaspora currently make up an up to this point unbelievable global crowd.

So it seemed well and good for Indian telecom monster Zee TV to make the most of a particularly business opportunity and devote a station called Zee Zindagi to their transmission. It was these equivalent dramatizations that presented India as well as anybody on the globe (who sees even a little Urdu) to our most celebrated fares Fawad Khan and Mahira Khan.

Lamentably, political manner of speaking appears to have diminished the light of cross line companionship and altruism to the sort of glimmering diya Paro hefted around for Devdas, so perhaps it's an ideal opportunity to remind everybody why the diya was lit in any case.

Presently, this rundown was difficult to incorporate. Simply being famous or "hit of the period" won't get your number one dramatization on it. Initially, a dramatization must be amazingly elegantly composed: any dreary exchanges, conflicting characterisations, or lethargic dependence on generalizations or adages would be a quick exclusion.

The ones that caused it to the Top 10 to share these things practically speaking: rehash esteem, notorious characters, a reasonable story beginning to end and a solid chief.

Nonetheless, the absolute most significant shared factor was that they were all unshakable diversion, the sort of show crowds were frantically standing by the entire week for.

1) Dastaan

Chief: Haissam Hussain Writer : Samira Fazal

Cast: Fawad Khan, Sanam Baloch, Ahsan Khan, Saba Qamar, Mehreen Raheel

It is difficult being number 1. Being acceptable isn't adequate, you must be outstanding. Dastaan isn't only any sequential, or simply any sentiment between two people. It is an epic romantic tale between a country and its kin.

Set during the wild season of Partition and Independence, Dastaan recounted the narrative of Hassan and Bano, destroyed by occasions a long ways outside their ability to control. The sheer intricacy and size of such a task would plague anybody however was capably taken care of by chief Haissam Hussain with the sort of powerful virtuoso that he is notable for.

Marshaling different areas, a tremendous star cast and every one of the political sensitivities and chronicled subtleties while as yet keeping a basic equilibrium makes this dramatization stand far superior to the group.

Fawad Khan, Sanam Baloch, Ahsan Khan, Saba Qamar and Mehreen Raheel gave standout exhibitions to coordinate with Samira Fazal's brilliant content.

2) Humsafar

Chief: Sarmad Khoosat Writer: Farhat Ishtiaq

Cast: Fawad Khan, Mahira Khan, Naveen Waqar, Atiqa Odho, Hina Bayat, Noor Hassan

A few things are so straightforward as can be that they dominate all the other things.

Humsafar enchanted a country, dispatching Fawad Khan and Mahira Khan to super-fame. Chief Sarmad Khoosat and Farhat Ishtiaq gave us in excess of a romantic tale; here was a guide of the human heart, a cozy comprehension of the most profound sentiments two individuals can have for one another. Sentiment, envy, despair and eventually the victory of pardoning made this probably the best chronic at any point made.

3) Daam

Chief: Mehreen Jabbar Writer: Umera Ahmed

Cast: Adeel Husain, Sanam Baloch, Aamina Sheik, Sanam Saeed

This uncommon diamond of a sequential resembles a long cool glass of water on a sweltering summer's day.

Chief Mehreen Jabbar's rich moderate style consummately caught this intensely noticed story of kinship and misfortune. This is one of essayist Umera Ahmed's generally experienced and complete screenplays; insightful and nuanced in its comprehension of the human condition. Best Pakistani Dramas.

4) Durr-e-Shehwar

Chief: Haissam Hussain Writer: Umera Ahmed

Cast: Mikaal Zulfikar, Sanam Baloch, Samina Peerzada, Nadia Jamil, Nauman Ejaz, Umer Naru

This show is a typical case of the force of a decent chief.

What could without much of a stretch have wound up as an elegantly composed potboiler turned into a paper on marriage and the changing requests of present day connections.

Utilizing a sharp equilibrium of past, present and close past, chief Haissam Hussain kept the energy going in what may have been simply one more mazloom aurat (vulnerable lady) story.

This strategy required a great deal of gifted altering and on the off chance that anybody needs to collaborate on how it's done, simply watch the American sequential The Story Of Us, which reflects this troublesome style.

Noteworthy exhibitions from Sanam Baloch, Mikaal Zulfikaar, Nadia Jamil and Samina Peerzada caused this sequential to appear to be a mysterious entryway into the past of each lady.

5) Shehr-e-Zaat

Chief: Sarmad Khoosat Writer: Umera Ahmed

Cast: Mahira Khan, Mikaal Zulfiqar, Mohib Mirza, Samina Peerzada

Mahira Khan and Mikaal Zulfiqar sparkled in this story of otherworldly arousing.

This story took on some intense subjects like our simple acknowledgment of realism, our absence of compassion for people around us and the key to genuine happiness in what must be depicted as tale for current occasions.

Significantly more than Humsafar, this sequential exhibited chief Sarmad Khoosat's interestingly imaginative and symbolic executive style.

6) Meri Zaat Zara-e-Benishan

Chief: Babar Javed Writer: Umera Ahmed

Cast: Faysal Qureshi, Samiya Mumtaz, Adnan Siddiqui, Imran Abbas, Samina Peerzada

This was one of the achievements of Pakistani TV, including splendid exhibitions from Samiya Mumtaz and Faysal Qureshi. This sad story hit at the core of how the idea of unobtrusiveness and uprightness can be utilized against a lady. There is no recovery, no exculpation in this story, it fills in as update that a few things just can't be reclaimed. Anybody watching this will be helped to remember what an extraordinary chief Babar Javed used to be.

7) Aunn Zara

Chief: Haissam Hussain Writer: Faiza Iftikhar

Cast: Osman Khalid Butt, Maya Ali, Sabreen Hisbani, Hina Bayat, Adnan Jaffar, Yasir Mazhar

There is a fantasy that parody is simple, when actually it very well may be the hardest thing to pull off. This lighthearted comedy made it misleadingly simple: a shimmering script from essayist Faiza Iftikhar, took care of with expertise and imagination by Haissam Hussain won hearts on the two sides of the line.

Narrow minded yet sweet Aunn and his proved unable be-tried to-sharmaofy, extremely viable lady of the hour Zara were an advanced much needed refresher, carrying more youthful crowds to a class that had been for some time assigned to "aunts and uncles".

Awesome exhibitions from Osman Khalid Butt and Maya Ali make this sequential stand apart from the group. This sequential demonstrated that financial plan ought to never be an impediment on quality on the grounds that solid exhibitions, a decent content and incredible camera work can defeat anything.

8) Roag

Chief: Babar Javed Writer: Faiza Iftikhar

Cast: Faysal Qureshi, Sumbal Iqbal, Asif Raza Mir, Mohib Mirza, Yamina Peerzada

Essayist Faiza Iftikhar demonstrated her astonishing adaptability by having the option to compose this frightening story of youngster assault similarly as perfectly as she did the carefree Aunn Zara.

This many-layered story clarifies exhaustively the aftermath from such a misfortune and works to a stunning peak, while calling attention to the manner in which our general public bombs casualties.

Splendid exhibitions from Faysal Qureshi, Asif Raza Mir, Sumbul Iqbal and Mohib Mirza make this exciting survey. Babar Javed and Furqan Khan coordinated this astounding sequential.

9) Pyaray Afzal

Chief: Nadeem Baig Writer: Khalil ur Rehman Qamar

Cast: Hamza Ali Abbasi, Aiza Khan, Sana Javed, Firdous Jamal, Saba Hamid, Sohai Ali Abro, Umer Naru, Anoushay Abbasi

Most serials are female-situated however this perfectly composed dramatization from Khalil Ur Rehman Qamar carried the male hero to the front: acquainting us with Afzal Subhanallah.

Imperfect, broken, yet everlastingly the gullible confident person, it ought to have been clear that Afzal would break our hearts. Hamza Ali Abbasi shot to fame with his awesome presentation under the master direction of chief Nadeem Baig.

Reinforced by extraordinary exhibitions from Firdous Jamal, Saba Hamid and Aiza Khan, this sequential kept a degree of remarkable quality. There are the individuals who will inquire as to for what reason is it then at No. 9, when it might have been higher up on the rundown? The basic answer would be that it is a moderately little recompense for executing off our Afzal.

10) Zindagi Gulzar Hai

Chief: Sultana Siddiqui Writer: Umera Ahmed

Cast: Sanam Saeed, Fawad Khan, Mansha Pasha, Ayesha Omar, Waseem Abbas, Samina Peerzada, Hina Bayat

This sequential was a marvel that made its stars madly mainstream in both Pakistan and India, boosting the consistent stream of social trade into a waterway of cross-line companionship. Amazing exhibitions from Sanam Saeed, Samina Peerzada and Fawad Khan made this sequential a worldwide top choice.

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The stricken Muslim community of Christchurch was preparing to bury its dead after the far right terrorist attack on two mosques which stunned New Zealand. Graves for the victims of the worst mass shooting in the country’s history were being dug on Saturday, in anticipation of their bodies being released by the authorities. Workmen using diggers carefully prepared the ground in a quiet corner of Memorial Park Cemetery, with colleagues erecting a cloth over a fence to preserve the dignity of their work on part of the site set aside for Muslim burials, the graves facing Mecca. A few hours earlier Brenton Tarrant, the Australian national accused of the rampage, appeared in court in Christchurch, where he made a white supremacist gesture with his hand while flanked by two police officers. The 28-year-old was charged with one initial count of murder but more are expected to follow and he was remanded in custody until April 5. Christchurch residents outside the Al Noor mosque, where 41 worshippers were shot dead Credit: Jorge Silva/Reuters Police believe Tarrant was responsible for both the attack on the Al Noor mosque and the shooting at the Linwood Islamic Centre a short drive away. Fifty people were killed. A further 36, mostly men, are being treated for injuries at the city’s main hospital, the youngest a boy of two. Two people remain in a critical condition, including a four-year-old girl who was taken to Auckland’s Starship Hospital. Jacinda Ardern, New Zealand’s Prime Minister, said yesterday the country’s gun laws would be tightened, with regulations around semi-automatic weapons, such as the ones allegedly used by Tarrant, "one of the issues" the government would consider. Minister David Parker confirmed that Semi Automatic weapons will be banned in New Zealand. pic.twitter.com/zVOAuyalZk— Kenny Williams (@Ohheykenny) March 16, 2019 Praising the bravery of two rural police officers who detained Tarrant at gunpoint as he allegedly tried to flee from the scene of the shootings, Ardern said he would have gone on target more victims. "It was absolutely was his intention to continue with his attack,” she said. Among Tarrant’s alleged victims were children, the elderly, recently arrived refugees and long settled migrants who had built a new life in a country one of them had described as "a slice of paradise". Daoud Nabi, a 71-year-old retired engineer who migrated from Afghanistan to New Zealand following the Soviet invasion, was the first to die on what Ardern would later call the country’s “darkest day.” In the grisly video allegedly filmed by Tarrant and streamed live online during the attack, the pensioner can be heard saying “hello brother” as he approached the gunman at the entrance to the Al Noor mosque. How Tarrant's hate spread across social media There were reports that Mr Nabi stepped in front of someone else to confront Tarrant, taking the bullets for himself. His son Omar, 43, said that was completely in character for his father, who had believed New Zealand to be a "slice of paradise." “Just helping people is his main thing. It makes me feel like he wanted other people to live,” he said. “To die in the masjid, in the mosque, if something like this happens the golden gates open for you.” At just three-years-old Mucad Ibrahim is thought to have been the youngest victim of the massacre. He had gone to the Al Noor mosque with his father and older brother Abdi, but was lost in the melee when the firing started. Abdi described his little brother as "energetic, playful and liked to smile and laugh a lot", confessing he felt nothing but “hatred” for his killer. Barely a year older than Mucad was Abdullahi Dirie, who was photographed cradled in a man’s arms outside the mosque after being fatally shot. His father and four siblings survived the attack. Abdullahi’s family had made their home in New Zealand after fleeing Somalia in the mid-1990s as refugees. His uncle Abdulrahman Hashi, 60, a preacher at Dar Al Hijrah Mosque in Minneapolis, said: “You cannot imagine how I feel. He was the youngest in the family. This is a problem of extremism. Some people think the Muslims in their country are part of that, but these are innocent people.” The family of Khaled Mustafa thought they had found safety in New Zealand after fleeing the bloody chaos of Syria only a few months ago. But he too became a victim of hatred when he was shot dead while praying with his two sons, Hamza, who is now missing feared dead and Zaid, 13, who is recovering from a six-hour operation on his wounds. Ali Akil, a spokesman for Syrian Solidarity New Zealand, said Mr Mustafa's wife and daughter, who were not at the mosque on Friday, were in "total shock, devastation and horror". He added: “They survived atrocities and arrived here in a safe haven only to be killed in the most atrocious way.." Among those also feared killed was a sports loving teenager described by his family as "a regular, typical, Kiwi kid." Sayyad Milne, who had dreams of playing football professionally, had gone to the Al Noor mosque with his mother Noraini. She managed to flee but Sayyad was cut down as the terrorist made his way through the building. Brydie Henry, Sayyad's half sister, said she was "devastated" by the attack. "They were good people, just living good lives. It's just awful," she added. Hosne Ara Parvin, 42, who moved to New Zealand from Bangladesh, is reported to have taken the full force of the bullets after leaping in front of the gunman to shield her husband Farid Uddin, who was in a wheelchair. Naeem Rashid, a Pakistani-born teacher, also tried to rush the gunman, but died later of his wounds. His son, 22-year-old Talha Naeem, a civil engineering graduate, was among those killed. Mr Rashid’s wife and Naeem’s mother Ambreen said: “I still can't understand or believe why and how this happened. But, I know that my husband is a hero. He always helped people and even in his last moments, he did what he could to help others." Khaja Mohiuddin, a chef, described how a fellow worshipper saved people by tackling the gunman while he and about 15 others hid at the Linwood mosque. He said: “The guy was there with us and said ‘we have to do something”, so he ran and just pulled the gun down.” One of Mr Mohiuddin's friends was killed, shot through the head. Two others are seriously injured, one with a collarbone “ripped off”, the other shot in the shoulder. New Zealand mosque massacre - In pictures While Prime Minister Ardern has vowed to change New Zealand’s gun laws, for Mr Mohiuddin it is too late. “That doesn’t return our loved ones. I know I have lost someone about whom I care, and my two other friends, I do not know for how many months they will be on a bed," he said. "It will not return their time nor my mate’s life back.," he said. Others feared killed were Mohammad Atta Alayan, Palestinian refugee who helped raise funds to build the mosque and Haroon Mahmood, a PhD student from Pakistan, who had two young children. Khaled Mustafa, Syrian refugee who fled Isil, was shot while praying. New Zealand futsal goalkeeper Atta Elayyan, 33, was also killed, as was retired engineer Ali Elmadani, who migrated from the United Arab Emirates in 1998. His daughter Maha Elmadani said: "My Dad always told us to be strong and patient so that's what we are all trying to do. For his sake. He considered New Zealand home and never thought something like this would happen here." The city of Christchurch once again bears the hallmarks of compassion that residents leaned on to help them through the dark months after the earthquake of February 2011 that claimed 185 lives. Opposite the hospital a row of traffic cones was adorned with flowers, while a nearby safety barrier was littered with bouquets. Terror in New Zealand | Read more A poster adorned with angels, butterflies and flowers read: “In loveing (sic) memory of all the beautiful Muslims who had their whole beautiful lives ripped away. We love you all and we know you are in a better place now. We will always walk with you side by side.” Lianne Dalziel, the Mayor of Christchurch said the killings were an “act of cowardice” by a “terrorist” who came to the city with “hate in his heart”. She added: “I want us not to be divided by what has happened, because hate divides. I want us to be united, and that’s what love and compassion and kindness are all about. “I believe that we can, because of our previous experience, recover from this. We can recover in a way that we will be stronger than we were before.” New Zealand Police Commissioner Mike Bush said this morning that the death toll has risen to 50 after investigators found another body at one of the mosques. "Security around mosques will continue until Police believe there is no threat," he said. Two other people, a man and a woman, arrested soon after the shootings were not linked to the gunman. The woman had been released without charge, the man has been charged with firearm offences. A list of those killed in the shootings had now been compiled and families had been advised. Mr Bush said the bodies have not yet been returned to the families as police need to determine the cause of death for each one. "We have been working pathologist and coroners, and the chief coroner, on that and we have to be clear on cause of death and the identity before we can do that. "We are so aware of the cultural and religious needs so we are doing that as quickly and sensitively as possible," Mr Bush added. The Police chief also said that it was "obvious" that a modified weapon had been used.

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The stricken Muslim community of Christchurch was preparing to bury its dead after the far right terrorist attack on two mosques which stunned New Zealand. Graves for the victims of the worst mass shooting in the country’s history were being dug on Saturday, in anticipation of their bodies being released by the authorities. Workmen using diggers carefully prepared the ground in a quiet corner of Memorial Park Cemetery, with colleagues erecting a cloth over a fence to preserve the dignity of their work on part of the site set aside for Muslim burials, the graves facing Mecca. A few hours earlier Brenton Tarrant, the Australian national accused of the rampage, appeared in court in Christchurch, where he made a white supremacist gesture with his hand while flanked by two police officers. The 28-year-old was charged with one initial count of murder but more are expected to follow and he was remanded in custody until April 5. Police believe Tarrant was responsible for both the attack on the Al Noor mosque and the shooting at the Linwood Islamic Centre a short drive away. Fifty people were killed. A further 36, mostly men, are being treated for injuries at the city’s main hospital, the youngest a boy of two. Two people remain in a critical condition, including a four-year-old girl who was taken to Auckland’s Starship Hospital. New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern (C) speaks with a representative of the Canterbury Refugee Centre in Christchurch on March 16 Credit: Marty Melville/AFP Jacinda Ardern, New Zealand’s Prime Minister, said yesterday the country’s gun laws would be tightened, with regulations around semi-automatic weapons, such as the ones allegedly used by Tarrant, "one of the issues" the government would consider. Praising the bravery of two rural police officers who detained Tarrant at gunpoint as he allegedly tried to flee from the scene of the shootings, Ardern said he would have gone on target more victims. "It was absolutely was his intention to continue with his attack,” she said. Among Tarrant’s alleged victims were children, the elderly, recently arrived refugees and long settled migrants who had built a new life in a country one of them had described as "a slice of paradise". Daoud Nabi, a 71-year-old retired engineer who migrated from Afghanistan to New Zealand following the Soviet invasion, was the first to die on what Ardern would later call the country’s “darkest day.” In the grisly video allegedly filmed by Tarrant and streamed live online during the attack, the pensioner can be heard saying “hello brother” as he approached the gunman at the entrance to the Al Noor mosque. There were reports that Mr Nabi stepped in front of someone else to confront Tarrant, taking the bullets for himself. Omar Nabi speaks outside the district court in Christchurch, about losing his father Haji Daoud in the mosque attacks Credit: Edgar Su/Reuters His son Omar, 43, said that was completely in character for his father, who had believed New Zealand to be a "slice of paradise." “Just helping people is his main thing. It makes me feel like he wanted other people to live,” he said. “To die in the masjid, in the mosque, if something like this happens the golden gates open for you.” At just three-years-old Mucad Ibrahim is thought to have been the youngest victim of the massacre. He had gone to the Al Noor mosque with his father and older brother Abdi, but was lost in the melee when the firing started. Abdi described his little brother as "energetic, playful and liked to smile and laugh a lot", confessing he felt nothing but “hatred” for his killer. Barely a year older than Mucad was Abdullahi Dirie, who was photographed cradled in a man’s arms outside the mosque after being fatally shot. His father and four siblings survived the attack. Abdullahi’s family had made their home in New Zealand after fleeing Somalia in the mid-1990s as refugees. His uncle Abdulrahman Hashi, 60, a preacher at Dar Al Hijrah Mosque in Minneapolis, said: “You cannot imagine how I feel. He was the youngest in the family. This is a problem of extremism. Some people think the Muslims in their country are part of that, but these are innocent people.” Mucad Ibrahim, 3, who is feared dead after being lost in the melee during the terror attack on the Al Noor mosque in Christchurch The family of Khaled Mustafa thought they had found safety in New Zealand after fleeing the bloody chaos of Syria only a few months ago. But he too became a victim of hatred when he was shot dead while praying with his two sons, Hamza, who is now missing feared dead and Zaid, 13, who is recovering from a six-hour operation on his wounds. Ali Akil, a spokesman for Syrian Solidarity New Zealand, said Mr Mustafa's wife and daughter, who were not at the mosque on Friday, were in "total shock, devastation and horror". He added: “They survived atrocities and arrived here in a safe haven only to be killed in the most atrocious way.." Among those also feared killed was a sports loving teenager described by his family as "a regular, typical, Kiwi kid." Sayyad Milne, who had dreams of playing football professionally, had gone to the Al Noor mosque with his mother Noraini. She managed to flee but Sayyad was cut down as the terrorist made his way through the building. Brydie Henry, Sayyad's half sister, said she was "devastated" by the attack. "They were good people, just living good lives. It's just awful," she added. Sayyad Milne, 14, who was at Friday prayers when the shooting started, is believed to be dead Hosne Ara Parvin, 42, who moved to New Zealand from Bangladesh, is reported to have taken the full force of the bullets after leaping in front of the gunman to shield her husband Farid Uddin, who was in a wheelchair. Naeem Rashid, a Pakistani-born teacher, also tried to rush the gunman, but died later of his wounds. His son, 22-year-old Talha Naeem, a civil engineering graduate, was among those killed. Mr Rashid’s wife and Naeem’s mother Ambreen said: “I still can't understand or believe why and how this happened. But, I know that my husband is a hero. He always helped people and even in his last moments, he did what he could to help others." Khaja Mohiuddin, a chef, described how a fellow worshipper saved people by tackling the gunman while he and about 15 others hid at the Linwood mosque. He said: “The guy was there with us and said ‘we have to do something”, so he ran and just pulled the gun down.” One of Mr Mohiuddin's friends was killed, shot through the head. Two others are seriously injured, one with a collarbone “ripped off”, the other shot in the shoulder. While Prime Minister Ardern has vowed to change New Zealand’s gun laws, for Mr Mohiuddin it is too late. “That doesn’t return our loved ones. I know I have lost someone about whom I care, and my two other friends, I do not know for how many months they will be on a bed," he said. "It will not return their time nor my mate’s life back.," he said. Others feared killed were Mohammad Atta Alayan, Palestinian refugee who helped raise funds to build the mosque and Haroon Mahmood, a PhD student from Pakistan, who had two young children. Khaled Mustafa, Syrian refugee who fled Isil, was shot while praying. Christchurch residents pay their respects by placing flowers for the victims of the mosque attacks Credit: Tessa Burrows/AFP New Zealand futsal goalkeeper Atta Elayyan, 33, was also killed, as was retired engineer Ali Elmadani, who migrated from the United Arab Emirates in 1998. His daughter Maha Elmadani said: "My Dad always told us to be strong and patient so that's what we are all trying to do. For his sake. He considered New Zealand home and never thought something like this would happen here." The city of Christchurch once again bears the hallmarks of compassion that residents leaned on to help them through the dark months after the earthquake of February 2011 that claimed 185 lives. Opposite the hospital a row of traffic cones was adorned with flowers, while a nearby safety barrier was littered with bouquets. A poster adorned with angels, butterflies and flowers read: “In loveing (sic) memory of all the beautiful Muslims who had their whole beautiful lives ripped away. We love you all and we know you are in a better place now. We will always walk with you side by side.” Lianne Dalziel, the Mayor of Christchurch said the killings were an “act of cowardice” by a “terrorist” who came to the city with “hate in his heart”. She added: “I want us not to be divided by what has happened, because hate divides. I want us to be united, and that’s what love and compassion and kindness are all about. “I believe that we can, because of our previous experience, recover from this. We can recover in a way that we will be stronger than we were before.” Police Commissioner Mike Bush said this morning that the death toll has risen to 50 Credit: Hagen Hopkins/Getty Images New Zealand Police Commissioner Mike Bush said this morning that the death toll has risen to 50 after investigators found another body at one of the mosques. "Security around mosques will continue until Police believe there is no threat," he said. Two other people, a man and a woman, arrested soon after the shootings were not linked to the gunman. The woman had been released without charge, the man has been charged with firearm offences. A list of those killed in the shootings had now been compiled and families had been advised. Mr Bush said the bodies have not yet been returned to the families as police need to determine the cause of death for each one. "We have been working pathologist and coroners, and the chief coroner, on that and we have to be clear on cause of death and the identity before we can do that. "We are so aware of the cultural and religious needs so we are doing that as quickly and sensitively as possible," Mr Bush added. The Police chief also said that it was "obvious" that a modified weapon had been used.

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