An Israeli settler on Wednesday desecrated a Muslim cemetery within the occupied East Jerusalem by hanging a donkey’s head.
“A settler stormed the Bab al-Rahma cemetery and hung a ‘donkey’s head’ on a grave there,” the Jerusalem governor’s workplace stated in a press release.
Photographs circulating on social media confirmed the pinnacle of a donkey hanging from a fence of the cemetery, which is adjoining to the Golden Gate, the oldest within the Old City and the one one to be walled.
“A Jewish extremist slit the throat of a donkey today at the Golden Gate cemetery before hanging it over the Muslim graves there,” the Waqf Islamic affairs council stated in a press release.
“It was a serious desecration of one of the main historic Muslim cemeteries in Jerusalem.”
The Bab al-Rahma is an historical Muslim cemetery that has been an endowment property for greater than 1,400 years. It incorporates quite a few graves of notable companions of Islam’s Prophet Muhammad.
Israeli police later stated they’d arrested an Israeli suspected of getting desecrated the Muslim cemetery.
Describing the 35-year-old as “unbalanced,” police stated he was arrested after they had been alerted {that a} man had “broken the law and disrupted public order by hanging the head of a donkey” on the cemetery.
Police stated the person was carrying an axe on the time of his arrest, including that one other suspect who allegedly had helped in taking him there was additionally in custody.
The cemetery is close to the Al-Aqsa mosque compound, a website holy to each Muslims and Jews and is on the coronary heart of tensions between Palestinians and Israelis.
The compound, additionally dwelling to the Dome of the Rock, is Islam’s holiest website after Mecca and Medina in Saudi Arabia. It lies straight above the Western Wall, the holiest place the place Jews are allowed to wish.
In current years, nationalist Jews have stormed the compound a number of occasions, sparking anger amongst Palestinians who see this as a provocation.
The incident additionally comes at a time when pressure has been working excessive throughout the West Bank amid a brutal Israeli offensive on the Gaza Strip, which has killed no less than 21,110 individuals, most of them ladies and youngsters, since Oct. 7, in response to native well being authorities.
Defending Al-Aqsa was cited by the Palestinian resistance group Hamas as the principle cause for its Oct. 7 lethal incursion of Israel.
Source: www.dailysabah.com