[MSN] Fwd: Historic window stolen from Ibrahimi Mosque in Hebron

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Paula Kotakis wrote ..
> http://www.maannews.net/en/index.php?opr=ShowDetails&ID=14766
> 
> Israeli settlers steal a historic window from the Ibrahimi Mosque in 
> Hebron
> 
> Date: 24 / 08 / 2006
> 
> Hebron - Ma'an- Israeli settlers stole a historic window from the 
> Ibrahimi Mosque in the southern West Bank city of Hebron on 
> Wednesday evening.
> 
> In an interview with Ma'an, Sheikh Tayseer Abu Sneneh, the 
> secretary general of Hebron's Islamic Council, criticized the 
> robbery and described the settlers' assault on the holy Muslim site 
> as "an attempt to judaize the mosque".
> 
> Abu Sneneh said that one of the mosque's guards discovered the 
> robbery on Wednesday night after closing up. He said that the 
> historic window is made of wood and was from a section inside the 
> mosque called "Ruwaq Al-'Ambar". This section is under Israeli 
> control and Muslims are only allowed to pray in it 10 days a year. 
> On Wednesday, this section was open to Jews, including Israeli 
> settlers.
> 
> Sheikh Tayseer Abu Sneneh called on human rights institutions 
> and the Islamic world to act quickly in order to provide protection 
> for the Islamic holy places that are frequently abused by Israeli 
> settlers.
> 
> Hebron is in the south of the occupied West Bank and the 
> presence of Israeli settlements there is illegal under international 
> law.