On the 28th anniversary of the Ibrahimi Mosque massacre the occupation seeks to Judaize it and the citizens are deeply rooted

 

Al-Bakri, Al-Tamimi and Zaki light oil lamps in the Sharif cave at dawn

Today, Friday, marks the 28th anniversary of the Ibrahimi Mosque massacre, which resulted in the martyrdom of 29 worshipers and the injury of 150 others inside the compound. to rescue the wounded .

Later, others were shot dead by the occupation soldiers outside the campus and during the funerals of the martyrs, bringing their total to 50 martyrs .

On the same day, on Friday the twenty-fifth of February 1994, the fifteenth of Ramadan, and after the terrorist settler Baruch Goldstein carried out the massacre inside the Ibrahimi Mosque and fired directly at the worshipers while they were prostrating, tension escalated in the city of Hebron and its villages and all Palestinian cities, The number of martyrs who were killed as a result of the clashes with the occupation soldiers reached 60 martyrs and hundreds were wounded .

After the massacre, the criminal was rewarded and the victim was punished, as the occupying forces closed the Ibrahimi Mosque and the Old City for a period of six whole months, claiming to investigate the crime, and unilaterally formed a “Shamgar” committee, to investigate the massacre and its causes. At the time, the committee made several recommendations, including dividing the Ibrahimi Mosque into It imposed a difficult occupation reality on the lives of citizens in the Old City, placed strict guards on the Temple Mount, and gave the Jews the right to sovereignty over the largest part of it - about 60% - with the aim of Judaizing and seizing it .

The usurped section of the sanctuary includes the shrines and tombs of prophets, including the tomb of the Prophet Abraham and his wife Sarah, the tomb of his grandson Jacob and his wife Leah, and the tomb of the Prophet Yusuf ibn Ya`qub, in addition to the courtyard of the sanctuary, which is the beautiful open area in it .

Despite the continuous attacks of the occupation on the Haram, the most prominent of which was last year and the beginning of this year, the Israeli occupation authorities started implementing a Judaization project on an area of ​​300 square meters of the Ibrahimi Mosque’s courtyards and its facilities, including the installation of an electric elevator, to facilitate settlers’ incursions, for which 2 million shekels were allocated to finance it .

The director of the Haram, and the former head of its custodian, Sheikh Hefzy Abu Sneineh, told Wafa, “Occupation vehicles, under heavy guard, dug heavy machinery approximately 100 meters from the Haram, to build a road in its western outer courtyards, and began operations to change the landmarks of the Haram, under the pretext of installing an electric elevator .

With the beginning of this year, the Israeli violations against the Ibrahimi Mosque escalated during the month of January. On 1-1-2022, settlers organized, with the protection of the Israeli occupation forces, a provocative tour in the markets and lanes of the Old City of Hebron, which included the popular market and the Old Town Gate Square. The two locations northwest of the Ibrahimi Mosque, during which they harassed the Palestinian citizens who live in these markets and neighborhoods and who go to the mosque to pray there .

On 4-1-2022, the occupation forces set up a large tent next to the castle wall in the usurped section of the sanctuary to cover up the excavation work they were carrying out. Excavations. The settlers, with the protection of the Israeli occupation forces, brought tools for “purifying” children into the usurped part of the Temple Mount .

In order to restrict the citizens, the occupation forces obstructed on 7-1-2022 the passage of Palestinian worshipers heading to perform the Friday prayer at the Ibrahimi Mosque at all the Israeli military checkpoints at the entrances to the Old City of Hebron and leading to the Haram for various periods of time in an arbitrary and sudden manner .

On January 10, 2022, the settlers, with the protection of the Israeli occupation forces, brought six portable health baths, and placed them in the outer courtyards of the usurped section of the Ibrahimi Mosque .

The settlers, with the protection of the Israeli occupation forces, set up a tent, on 11-1-2022, and conducted excavations and excavations at the entrance to the Haram in order to implement the project of building an electric elevator to serve the coming settlers. Next to the castle wall in the usurped section of the campus, the so-called Israeli border guards inside the campus assaulted the director general of the Hebron Endowments Jamal Abu Aram, and the director of the campus, Hefzy Abu Sneina verbally when they were inspecting the site where the occupation forces operate, and the settlers also organized a loud celebration And they broadcast songs through loudspeakers in the outer garden of the Haram, during which they disturbed the Palestinian citizens next to it .

On January 24, 2022, the Israeli occupation forces invaded the eastern gate of the Ibrahimi Mosque “Bab al-Ain al-Hamra”, and brought a table, chairs and other supplies to the aforementioned area, and held a meeting there for the so-called border guards, and also brought a large crane that carried large iron bridges to The outer court of the usurped section of the Haram, I placed it in the outer courtyards, and one hundred Israeli soldiers stormed the Haram al-Sharif from the direction of Bab al-Jawlia, and they stayed there for a period of time, which touches the feelings of Muslims and desecrates the sanctity of the place .

On January 25, 2022, the employees of the Hebron Endowments Directorate heard the sounds of electrical tools, “electric saws” working inside the ward room in the usurped section of the Haram, which was taken over by extremist settlers and recently under the protection of the occupation forces .

On the twenty-fifth of last month, the settlers, under the protection of the occupation forces, threw stones from the outpost of “Beit Romano” Osama Bin Munqith School towards the Palestinian shops located in the old municipality yard to the northwest of the Haram, causing a state of confusion, and the next day the occupation forces imposed Sudden and arbitrary closure by an Israeli military order on the aforementioned shops.

On the twenty-eighth of last month, the occupation forces obstructed the passage of Palestinian citizens and worshipers heading to perform the Friday prayer in the Haram at all the Israeli military checkpoints at the entrances to the Old City of Hebron and leading to the Haram for different periods of time, and on the following day, the occupation forces attacked The Israeli forces brutally beat the Palestinian journalist Abdel Mohsen Al-Shalaldeh in the old municipality yard, northwest of the Haram, while he was doing his work, arbitrarily .

On January 30, 2022, the extremist settlers, under the protection of the Israeli occupation forces, held a big party in the Sahn area, which is located in the usurped section of the Ibrahimi Mosque, accompanied by musical instruments and drums, and they knocked on the doors in an annoying and noisy way for long periods of time .

The Israeli occupation forces prevented the call to prayer from the minarets of the Ibrahimi Mosque during the month of January 1-2 2022 for fifty “50” times, on the pretext that the process of raising the call to prayer in the Haram annoys the settlers who are always present in the usurped part of the Haram since the massacre of the Haram on 25 -2-1994 .

The most prominent attacks on the Ibrahimi Mosque during the month of 2/2022 were the settlers erecting near the eastern gate of the Ibrahimi Mosque "Bab al-Ain al-Hamra", an iron platform in place of the seven steps they sanctified .

After the Minister of Endowments and Religious Affairs, Hatem Al-Bakry, released oil lamps in the Holy Cave in the Haram, at dawn today, Friday, in the presence of Ahmed Al-Tamimi, a member of the Executive Committee of the Palestine Liberation Organization, and a member of the Central Committee of Fatah Movement Abbas Zaki, he confirmed to “Wafa” that the citizens’ keenness to be in the Ibrahimi Mosque and its reconstruction. It prevents the settlers from achieving their aims to completely control it and obliterate its Arab and Islamic identity, despite their repeated attempts to close the campus and prevent the call to prayer on time .

In turn, Al-Tamimi told Wafa, despite the practices of the occupation and settlers, the people of Hebron and the Committee of Protectors of the Ibrahimi Mosque are the basic building block in its defense, and we will continue to defend our sanctuary and our old town, and to strengthen the steadfastness of the citizens there, with the participation of all residents and volunteers .

Zaki explained to "Wafa" that everyone who lives near the Haram and in the Old City believes in the justice of our cause, and preserves their properties with their firm will that does not soften, and no matter how the occupation tries to impose its control by force on the Haram and prevents them from praying in it, they will not make it an easy prey for the settlers, and they will continue Protect it by being present and praying in it .

It is worth mentioning that the Protectors of the Haram Committee aims to encourage the march of the Ibrahimi Mosque and to pray in it, and to go to the markets of the old city so that normal life returns to its previous state before the massacre of the Haram that occurred in 1994, and the subsequent Israeli measures and obstacles, and works in cooperation with families, institutions and events to distribute Sweets, juices and hospitality for the pioneers, visitors and worshipers of the Ibrahimi Mosque.

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Ramallah WAFA - The Israeli occupation forces arrested, at dawn today, Friday, 8 citizens of the West Bank, including a girl.

In Ramallah, the occupation forces arrested four citizens, including a girl: Jabr Khalil Shejaia, Assem Hamadna, Inshad Hamadna, and the girl Insha'a Hamadna.

In Abu Dis, southeast of occupied Jerusalem , the Israeli occupation forces arrested the young man, Muhammad Mohsen, after storming the town and the outbreak of confrontations with the soldiers .

The occupation also arrested two citizens of Beit Sahour, east of Bethlehem, Makram Bannoura (65 years), and Alaa Bannoura (45 years), after raiding and searching their homes.

In Hebron, the Israeli occupation forces arrested Saher Maher Abu Eisha, from his house in the Abu Rumman area, and raided and searched several houses in the neighborhood.