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Israel prevented the Muslim call to prayer from being made from the Ibrahimi Mosque in occupied Hebron 44 times in February, new figures released by the Palestinian Ministry of Endowments and Religious Affairs show.
According to the Palestinian Information Centre, the Ministry explained, in a statement yesterday, that Israeli occupation forces and settlers have intensified their attacks against Islamic sanctities under the pretext of tourism.
Occupation forces expelled a number of its ministry employees from the Ibrahimi Mosque for no reason and banned them from entering it, stressing that these measures come as part of the Israeli attempts to empty the mosque of worshippers and workers, after its director was deported from it a week ago.
It stressed that the Israeli occupation, by practicing its daily violations and attacks on the Ibrahimi Mosque, is ignoring all international laws and conventions that placed the holy sanctuary on the list of the cultural heritage in 2017 naming it a Palestinian site.
The Endowments Ministry called on the relevant international institutions to “exert efforts to stop and end these violations in order to preserve its religious heritage and historical value, and to put an end to the violations of this unjust occupation.”
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