AhlulBayt News Agency: Israeli occupation forces prevented the call to prayer from being raised in the Ibrahimi Mosque 48 times in December, the Ministry of Endowments and Religious Affairs revealed yesterday.
Occupation forces also raided Al-Aqsa Mosque 22 times in that period, it added.
Releasing its monthly report, the ministry said that occupation forces and settlers escalated their attacks on Al-Aqsa Mosque, noting that the extremist Israeli minister Itamar Ben-Gvir, stormed the mosque on the first day of the Jewish festival of Hanukkah while heavily guarded by occupation forces. This was the seventh time he has raided the Muslim holy site since he assumed office in December 2022.
It warned that these attacks aim to “consecrate the presence of settlers and impose a new reality, by performing Talmudic rituals such as collective prostration, blowing the trumpet, and bringing in plant offerings, at a specific time and place.”
Regarding the Ibrahimi Mosque in the city of al-Khalil in the southern occupied West Bank, the ministry documented that “the occupation forces prevented the call to prayer 48 times, stormed it, climbed onto its roof and took some measurements, which constitutes a blatant violation of the sanctity of Islamic holy sites and an encroachment on Waqf property.”
It also documented that the occupation authorities carried out excavations and extended a sewage line in the courtyards of the mosque, and assaulted the mosque’s director, Sheikh Moataz Abu Sneineh, at the military gates and prevented him from receiving medical treatment. Occupation forces also attempted to disrupt a Quran recitation event.
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Occupation forces also raided Al-Aqsa Mosque 22 times in that period, it added.
Releasing its monthly report, the ministry said that occupation forces and settlers escalated their attacks on Al-Aqsa Mosque, noting that the extremist Israeli minister Itamar Ben-Gvir, stormed the mosque on the first day of the Jewish festival of Hanukkah while heavily guarded by occupation forces. This was the seventh time he has raided the Muslim holy site since he assumed office in December 2022.
It warned that these attacks aim to “consecrate the presence of settlers and impose a new reality, by performing Talmudic rituals such as collective prostration, blowing the trumpet, and bringing in plant offerings, at a specific time and place.”
Regarding the Ibrahimi Mosque in the city of al-Khalil in the southern occupied West Bank, the ministry documented that “the occupation forces prevented the call to prayer 48 times, stormed it, climbed onto its roof and took some measurements, which constitutes a blatant violation of the sanctity of Islamic holy sites and an encroachment on Waqf property.”
It also documented that the occupation authorities carried out excavations and extended a sewage line in the courtyards of the mosque, and assaulted the mosque’s director, Sheikh Moataz Abu Sneineh, at the military gates and prevented him from receiving medical treatment. Occupation forces also attempted to disrupt a Quran recitation event.
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