Videos obtained by Al Jazeera show Israeli forces bombing mosques and desecrating copies of the Muslim holy book.

Hamas has called on Arab and Muslim countries and organizations to condemn and express outrage at Israeli forces for burning copies of the Quran in a mosque in Gaza.

“The burning of copies of the Quran and the desecration and destruction of mosques confirm the extremist nature of this entity and its hateful criminal soldiers and their fascist behavior against everything related to the identity and sanctities of our nation,” the Palestinian group said in a statement on Saturday.

Al Jazeera Arabic had broadcast footage from Israeli soldiers’ cameras showing them tearing up and burning pages from the Muslim holy book at the Bani Saleh Mosque in northern Gaza.

The channel also published a video from an Israeli drone showing the bombing of the historic Grand Mosque in Khan Younis.

According to the Gaza Government Media Office, Israel has completely destroyed 610 mosques and three churches in Gaza over the past 10 months.

On Saturday, Hamas called on “free people of the world” to take action to defend Muslim and Christian holy sites in Palestine and end the “war of extermination” against the Gaza Strip.

The Israeli offensive has killed more than 40,200 Palestinians and reduced large parts of the besieged Palestinian territory to rubble.

The Council on American-Islamic Relations, a US advocacy group, said the desecration of copies of the Koran and attacks on mosques in Gaza prove that Israel’s “war against the Palestinian people in Gaza is also a war against Islam itself”.

The group also called on US President Joe Biden to condemn Israeli abuses.

“The Biden administration must condemn this religious sacrilege and suspend arms shipments to the Israeli government to end the campaign of slaughter and starvation in Gaza,” CAIR Executive Director Nihad Awad said in a statement.

Muslim Palestinians in Gaza have continued to hold communal prayers beside the ruins of destroyed mosques. But worshippers have repeatedly been attacked by Israeli bombardments during prayer gatherings.

Last month, an Israeli attack on worshippers gathered to pray at a destroyed mosque in the Shati refugee camp in northern Gaza killed at least 20 people.

Earlier this month, the Israeli military also bombed a school in Gaza City where displaced civilians were sheltering during morning prayers, killing more than 100 people.

Israeli soldiers have been repeatedly accused of violating Islamic holy sites.

Last December, Israeli forces recited Jewish prayers and Hanukkah songs from the pulpit of a mosque they had raided in Jenin in the occupied West Bank.