A Palestinian official warned yesterday that the Israeli military is constant its assaults on the Ibrahimi Mosque within the occupied West Financial institution metropolis of Hebron, with the goal of Judaising it and altering its options, with a purpose to serve unlawful settlers.
The Director-Normal of the Hebron Endowments, Jamal Abu Aram, mentioned in an interview with Anadolu Company: “The Israeli military has put in an escalator that’s longer and wider than a earlier one which was eliminated.” This facilitates settler entry “to a spot situated within the jap nook of the mosque, the place they carry out non secular rituals,” he defined.
In August 2021, Israel began construction work, together with the erection of an elevator within the Ibrahimi Mosque, regardless of Palestinian objections.
Abu Aram confused that “the brand new assaults come inside the gradual Judaisation of the mosque, altering its options and turning it into what appears like a synagogue to serve the settlers.”
READ: With Herzog’s visit to Hebron, is Israel considering a microstate deal for the Palestinians?
He confused that the brand new Israeli measures within the neighborhood of the mosque, together with the latest erection of a lot of tents, “contravene all legal guidelines, because the mosque is on the UNESCO World Heritage Record, and due to this fact have to be preserved.”
In July 2017, the World Heritage Committee of the United Nations Academic, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) declared the Ibrahimi Mosque a Palestinian heritage web site.
Abu Aram additionally reported that Israeli excavations are persevering with within the neighborhood of the mosque, with the goal of establishing an elevator to serve settlers.
“We condemn what the occupation is doing by power of arms,” he added.
An eyewitness, journalist Amer al-Shaloudi, instructed Anadolu Company that “the Israeli excavations are happening about 150 metres from the Ibrahimi Mosque” including that he had documented in images the seizure of historic stones from the place and transferring them to an unknown vacation spot”.
The Ibrahimi Mosque is situated within the previous metropolis of Hebron, which is underneath Israel’s management. The mosque is believed to have been constructed on the tomb of the Prophet Ibrahim.
