Israeli Occupation Installs Ceiling over the yard of Ibrahimi Mosque in Hebron

The Israeli occupation forces installed ceiling over the yard of the Ibrahimi Mosque in the occupied West Bank city of Hebron in an attempt to Judaize the place and change its features. The director of the Hebron Endowments, Ghassan Al-Rajabi, said that the occupation took advantage of the aggression waged against the Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip and closed the courtyard area and its yard and installed a sheet metal ceiling, in an attempt to change the features of the Ibrahimi Mosque, considering this action a blatant assault against the sanctity and status of the Mosque. Al-Rajabi added that this attack is dangerous, and the Endowments formed an operations room with the governorate and city institutions to come up with recommendations regarding this blatant attack. The Governor of Hebron, Khaled Dodin, denounced such step, considering it as a serious attack on the features of the Mosque, a provocation to the feelings of Muslims, and an assault on freedom of worship there, adding that such an act t hreatens to escalate the situation in the governorate. Dodin called on international human rights institutions and the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) to take urgent action to stop these violations. Source: Qatar News Agency