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The Israeli occupation forces (IOF) on Monday prevented the Hebron Rehabilitation Committee from completing the restoration and maintenance works at the Al-Ibrahimi Mosque.
The director and head of the Ibrahimi Mosque, Sheikh Hefzi Abu Sneina, told the official agency that the occupation forces prevented the staff of the Reconstruction Committee from completing the restoration work at the Haram, which includes “maintenance and restoration work on the surface of the Haram, painting walls, cleaning stone by construction, historical Islamic engravings,” and other works. Technical, under the pretext that they do not possess a special permit for that from the competent authorities in the occupation government.
Israel prevents maintenance works at Hebron s Ibrahimi Mosque
HEBRON, Sunday, January 17, 2021 (WAFA) – Israeli occupation army today prevented staff of the Hebron Rehabilitation Committee (HRC) from conducting maintenance works at the archeological Ibrahimi Mosque in Hebron, south of the occupied West Bank, according to the director of the mosque, Hefzi Abu Sneineh.
He told WAFA that Israeli soldiers denied access of the HRC staff to the mosque and ordered a halt on the ordinary maintenance works at the holy site.
Abu Sneineh said the latest Israeli measure was part of a systematic policy aimed at Judaizing the character of the mosque by banning any maintenance works and limiting access of Palestinians to the site, while allowing Jewish fanatics to flock there.