Destruction of Muslims’ graves targets wiping out Islamic landmarks

The Israeli occupation authority is still pursuing a policy of destruction when dealing with the Muslims’ graveyards and tombs in order to change the Islamic landmarks in Palestine, Tadamon Foundation for Human Rights said.

The lawyer and researcher at Tadamon Foundation, Ahmad Tubasi, said that the foundation had registered since the beginning of 2012 six attacks against Muslim cemeteries in the West Bank and the territories occupied in 1948.

Tubasi reported that the IOA attacked, during the past few days, the cemetery of Majdal Sadeq village, which had been depopulated since 1948, where bulldozers started exhuming and destroying dozens of graves.

He noted that this attack on Muslims’ cemeteries is not the first as it had been preceded by five similar attacks.

The previous attacks on Muslim cemeteries included the destruction of graves, the transformation of the Muslims’ cemetery in the occupied territories to a parking lot, the destruction of the tomb of martyr Izz al Din al Kassam and recently the excavations in the cemetery of Sheikh Munis.

Tubasi condemned the series of the ongoing attacks against the Islamic sanctities and cemeteries, stressing that these attacks represent a flagrant violation of all divine laws and international laws and conventions.

He noted that the Islamic cemeteries are Islamic endowments that have to be respected, and demanded the international community and its organs to intervene and pressure the occupation government to stop its ongoing violations of the sanctity of holy sites and Muslims’ cemeteries.