Israeli authorities close the Ibrahimi Mosque

OCCUPIED PALESTINE, Oct. 09 (YPA) – The Israeli occupation authorities on Wednesday  closed the Ibrahimi Mosque in the city of Hebron to Muslim worshipers until Saturday evening.

The director of the mosque and its head custodian Moataz Abu Sneineh said that the occupation authorities closed the Ibrahimi Mosque today to Muslims to allow colonists to celebrate one of their holidays, noting that the closure process includes closing the main gates of the mosque and preventing all employees of al-Awqaf from being inside it.

He added that the occupation forces are turning all neighborhoods of the Old City, the surroundings of the Ibrahimi Mosque, and the neighboring neighborhoods into military barracks, and are intensively deploying their soldiers on various main axes in the area, while allowing hundreds of colonists to come to the mosque, describing the behavior of the occupation government as racist, and an infringement on the freedom of worship and the performance of religious rituals and prayers for Muslims who have the right to this purely Islamic mosque.

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