Settlers desecrate mosque in al-Khalil

[ 04/03/2011 - 11:56 AM ]

AL-KHALIL, (PIC)-- Dozens of fanatic Jewish settlers, at dawn Thursday, stormed the Nabi Younis Mosque in the town of Halhoul to the north of the southern West Bank city of al-Khalil.

Local sources told PIC that more than a hundred fanatic settlers, some of them armed, stormed the mosque under the protection of IOF troops and carried out Talmodic rituals inside and outside the mosque, challenging the feelings of the residents.

The local resident also said that the IOF troops closed the northern entrance to the town at the Nabi Younis Junction for several hours to facilitate the settlers’ access to the mosque.

Meanwhile, the IOF troops arrested two brothers in the city of al-Khalil, confiscated a car and car parts from the shop run by the two brothers, Muhammad and Abdul-Ghani Abu al-Dabaat.
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