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Israel ar, according to The New Arab news site.
Israeli forces attacked protesters who gathered and prayed at the Islamic cemetery of Al-Yusufiyah, where graves were dug and the site desecrated, The New Arab reported, adding that one of the protesters was arrested. by the Israeli police.
Although military personnel forcibly removed her, Ola Nababta refused to leave her son Alaa’s grave.
Alaa is buried in the Palestinian cemetery of Yusufiya near Al Aqsa. This week, Israeli forces began construction near the site to build a “Bible park.” pic.twitter.com/wriksfhjLN
– Jewish Voice for Peace (@jvplive) 25 October 2021
The Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, Sheikh Mohammad Hussein, said the planned theme park was an assault on the dead.
“The graves of human beings cannot be violated, regardless of gender, nationality or religion,†he said.
Authorities in Israel claimed that authorized burials at the cemetery would not be affected, but video footage showed a Palestinian woman being dragged as she clung to one of the graves believed to have belonged to her deceased son.
The part of Al-Yousufiyah cemetery that is under Israeli construction contains graves of Arab soldiers killed in the 1967 war, some of which are unmarked, as well as those belonging to other Palestinian families.
In 2014, Israel banned Palestinians from burying their dead in the northern part of the cemetery, slated to be part of a “Bible trail” by the Israeli municipality, which demolished around 20 graves in the area belonging to soldiers. Jordanians.
(The New Arabic, PC, social networks)
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