Jordan and Saudi Arabia have condemned Israeli President Isaac Herzog’s visit to the Ibrahimi Mosque within the occupied West Financial institution metropolis of Hebron to have a good time a Jewish vacation. Herzog pressured his means into the mosque on Sunday to take part in a candle-lighting ceremony. He was accompanied by numerous Israeli cops and unlawful Jewish settlers.
A spokesman for the Jordanian International Ministry, Haitham Abu Al-Foul, described Herzog’s go to as a “violation of worldwide regulation” and a “transfer that encourages extremism.” Furthermore, he stated, it was an “unjustified provocation to the feelings of Muslims.”
The Saudi International Ministry additionally decried the go to as “provocative”. A ministry assertion known as on the worldwide group “to bear its accountability in the direction of stopping Israeli practices in opposition to Islamic holy websites.”
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After the 1994 bloodbath of 29 Palestinian worshippers contained in the Ibrahim Mosque by an extremist Jewish settler, Baruch Goldstein, the Israeli occupation authorities divided the mosque advanced between Muslim and Jewish worshippers.
UNESCO’s World Heritage Committee determined in July 2017 to incorporate the Ibrahimi Mosque and the outdated metropolis of Hebron on its World Heritage Listing. The occupied metropolis is house to roughly 160,000 Palestinian Muslims and about 500 Jewish settlers. The latter stay in a sequence of Jews-only enclaves closely guarded by Israeli troops.
