Al-Khalil - Saba:
Thousands of settlers, including the so-called Minister of National Security in the government of the extremist Zionist enemy Itamar Ben Gvir, stormed the Ibrahimi Mosque in Al-Khalil on Friday evening.
Ben-Gvir and the Zionist settlers performed Talmudic rituals inside the Cave of the Patriarchs.
The Palestinian news agency said that the Zionist enemy forces closed this afternoon, the Ibrahimi Mosque to Muslim worshipers, and opened it to settlers under the pretext of Jewish holidays.
The enemy forces also closed the Old City and imposed a curfew in several neighborhoods, including in preparation for the incursion of settlers who stormed the streets of the town by thousands and the closed areas in the city of Hebron and the vicinity of the Haram, through the streets of Haret Jaber, Wad al-Husayn and al-Salaymeh.
The director of the Ibrahimi Mosque, Moataz Abu Sneineh, said that enemy forces forced the employees of the Tomb of the Patriarchs and endowments to leave it, in preparation for the settlers storming the compound and its courtyards.
He pointed out that the Zionist enemy announced the closure of the sanctuary by the afternoon prayer until Saturday evening, tightened its measures at military checkpoints and gates of the sanctuary, and prevented many citizens from praying in the sanctuary.
The enemy has exceeded the number of days in which settlers desecrate the Haram to 12 days this year, he said, denouncing the settlers' desecration of the Haram and its courtyards with noisy parties.
The Ibrahimi Mosque is located in the Old City of Hebron, which is controlled by the Zionist enemy and is forcibly inhabited by about 400 settlers guarded by about 1,500 enemy soldiers, amid the spread of dozens of military checkpoints.
Since 1994, Israel has divided the Ibrahimi Mosque by 63 percent for Jews and 37 percent for Muslims, following a massacre by a settler that killed 29 worshippers.
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