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Staff from the Israeli West Jerusalem Municipality on Tuesday continued to dig and destroy the graves of dead Palestinians and raze land at the Islamic cemetery of Al-Yusufiyah, despite strong protests from the families of those buried there. the official Palestinian news agency WAFA reported.
“I will not leave my son,” a Palestinian mother says as she clings to her son’s grave in the Al-Yusufiyah cemetery in East Jerusalem, which is being demolished by the Israeli occupation #Palestine #Israeli crimes pic.twitter.com/z6eEJxQh2K
– Palestine in the UK (@PalMissionUK) October 26, 2021
Eyewitnesses told WAFA that Israeli staff destroyed several headstones and graves in the cemetery, as they proceeded to level them in a bid to remove them altogether as part of Israel’s efforts to change the Arab character. and Islamic of the occupied holy city.
Watch: Israel Parks and Nature Authority workers cut trees as municipality continues to raze parts of Al-Yusufiyah Islamic cemetery in #Jerusalem‘s Old Town. He plans to erase it to change the Arab and Islamic character of the city.#Free Palestine pic.twitter.com/TbgrHABkUv
– Wafa News Agency – English (@WAFANewsEnglish) October 26, 2021
Israeli police forcibly evicted families of Palestinians buried there who opposed the desecration of the graves as the remains of the dead were on display.
Israel says it intends to turn the cemetery, located near Lions Gate – one of the gates in Jerusalem’s Old City that leads to the Al-Aqsa Mosque – into a Jewish biblical park.
(WAFA, PC, Social networks)
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