Israeli Jews have been caught on video leaping on Muslim graves on the Bab Al-Rahmeh cemetery on the east facet of the Al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem’s occupied Outdated Metropolis. The pictures have sparked fierce criticism from the Islamic Waqf (Spiritual Endowment) division, which oversees Muslim spiritual websites within the occupied metropolis.
It’s believed the video was shot in the course of the Yom Kippur vacation, the holiest day on the Jewish calendar. It exhibits numerous Jewish youth singing and leaping between and on the gravestones of the cemetery.
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The Waqf manages the location the place the Al-Aqsa Mosque is situated. Officers condemned what they described because the “desecration” of Muslim graves by Jewish extremists, claiming that they had carried out celebratory actions at these graves below police safety.
Nonetheless, in response to a question from the Instances of Israel, an Israeli police spokesperson refuted these claims, saying officers βgrabbed folks and eliminated them from the scene.β
Look|| In a blatant violation of the sanctity of the lifeless, dozens of colonial Israeli settlers dance and sing provocatively on the graves of Muslims on the Bab al-Rahma cemetery close to the japanese wall of the Al-Aqsa Mosque in occupied Jerusalem. pic.twitter.com/RNJYgt1hkb
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Waqf officers additional criticized the safety measures Israel imposed across the Al-Aqsa complicated, together with random inspections, the confiscation of worshipers’ id playing cards and restrictions on Palestinians coming into the realm. They denounced such actions taken within the identify of Jewish holidays, saying they had been unacceptable.
In an attraction to the Muslim world, Waqf officers identified that solely Muslims have the correct to protect their holy websites and reiterated requires all Muslim governments to assist their guardianship.
The top of the Committee for the Care of Islamic Cemeteries, Mustafa Abu Zahra, stated Al-Araby Al-Jadeed that colonists turned their vacation into acts of aggression in opposition to Muslim graves.
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