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24 May 2009 The Awkaf committee that caters for
Muslim graveyards in the occupied city of Jerusalem
has strongly condemned Sunday the cruel attack on the
Rahma cemetery at the hands of fanatic Jewish
settlers.
According to the committee, the settlers, who are
believed to be protected by the IOF troops, assaulted
and destroyed many tombs in the graveyard in a clear
act of desecration of the cemetery.
Chairman of the committee Mustafa Abu Zahra described
the attack as "vicious and condemned desecration of a
Muslim site in Jerusalem", adding that families of
those buried there were extremely angry at the
incident.
Eyewitnesses in the city asserted that while they were
on their way to the Aqsa Mosque to perform dawn prayer
on Friday, they saw a group of Israeli settlers
defacing and destroying the graves before they (the
settlers) fled from the place after they realized they
were exposed.
According to Abu Zahra, the attack was part of a
broader Israeli plan to Judaize Jerusalem, and to
distort all Muslim milestones in it with the aim alter
its Muslim identity.
The Israeli occupation authority strives hard to
ensure Jewish majority in the city, and to displace
Palestinian Jerusalemites out of it.
The incident wasn’t isolated, underlined Abu Zahra,
adding that many Jewish settlers' attacks had taken
place in the past against the Mamanullah cemetery and
other Muslim and Christian holy shrines in the
occupied city.
However, Abu Zahra confirmed that Muslim cemeteries
will remain for Muslims, and that the Palestinian
Jerusalemites would defend those Muslim sites with all
possible means, and to the last drop of their blood.
EsinIslam.Com
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