Netanyahu is set to deliver a speech at the Ibrahimi Mosque, which Jews refer to as the
Cave of the Patriarchs, to commemorate the 90th anniversary of the 1919 Al-Buraq Uprising.
He said the neighborhood that came under attack is located near the settlement and near a building recently occupied by hardcore settlers and on a road settlers use to reach the Ibrahimi mosque, also called
Cave of the Patriarchs, in Hebron.
The director of the Khalil Awqaf Jamal Abu Aram told the Palestinian news agency (WAFA) that a group of settlers attacked the garden of the
Cave of the Patriarchs, and cut down the trees of olive standing in front of the eyes of the guards and border occupation ..
In a statement, the military said the incident occurred near the biblical
Cave of the Patriarchs, revered by Muslims as the Ibrahimi mosque, in the city of Hebron.
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They raised an Israeli flag on the building near a shrine known to Jews as the
Cave of the Patriarchs and to Muslims as the Ibrahimi Mosque.
The UNESCO's World Heritage Committee will vote on a draft resolution calling to recognize Hebron's Old City, with it the
Cave of the Patriarchs, as a Palestinian World Heritage Site.
The Ibrahimi Mosque, known to Jews as the
Cave of the Patriarchs, in the Old City where the Prophet Abraham is believed to be buried has been a focal point of such violence for decades, as the site is holy to both Muslims and Jews and has been a prime site for Israeli settler activities in the area.
5 In the bible, Sarah is buried in the
Cave of the Patriarchs at Hebron.
Two tourist destinations, the
Cave of the Patriarchs in the heart of the old city of Hebron and Rachel's Tomb in Bethlehem, are named in the paper as "Palestinian sites."
To capitalize on the government's alluring settlement policies in the West Bank, a group of religious Jews rented a hotel in the Palestinian town of Al-Khalil (Hebron) to spend Passover at the "
Cave of the Patriarchs," and simply refused to leave, sparking the biblical passion of religious Orthodox Israelis across the country, who referred to the West Bank by the Biblical name, Judea and Samaria.