Closure of Ibrahimi Mosque a prelude to convert it into synagogue, warns Palestinian cabinet member Mansi

[ 06/10/2007 - 11:29 AM ]

GAZA, (PIC)--

Dr. Yousuf Mansi, the minister of Awqaf (religious endowments) in the PA caretaker government, has warned that the repeated closure of the Ibrahimi Mosque in Al-Khalil (Hebron) by the Israeli occupation government (IOG) posed as a prelude to convert the Islamic shrine into a Jewish synagogue.

He said in a press release on Saturday that the IOG measures aimed at obstructing the arrival of Muslim worshipers to the Ibrahimi Mosque were in preparation for converting it into a Jewish synagogue.

The Ibrahimi Mosque is wholly Muslim and Jews had nothing to do with it, the minister said, affirming that all IOG measures in this regard were null and void.

He charged that the IOG targets judaizing the Old City of Al-Khalil, where the Mosque is located, and called for according special status to the Old City to foil the IOG schemes.

Mansi urged Muslims in Palestine to frequent the Ibrahimi Mosque in an attempt to abort the scheme, and called on the Arab and Islamic countries to act and save the Islamic landmarks in Palestine from the dangers of judaization.

He finally asked the world community to pressure the IOG into desisting from repeated desecration of Islamic holy shrines in Palestine.

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