Tag Archives: cemetary

AFEH documents the digging of more graves at Ma’manullah cemetery

Ethnic Cleansing – Topic | Settlement Construction – Category – Pictures [ 17/11/2011 – 01:01 PM ] OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC)– The Aqsa Foundation for Endowment and Heritage (AFEH) revealed that dozens of Zionist workers have been engaged in digging up Muslim graves at the historic Ma’manullah cemetery in occupied Jerusalem, stressing that the American and […]

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For Israel’s “Tolerance” – Ethnical cleansing of Mamilla Cemetery

Ethnic Cleansing – Topic | Settlement Construction – Category Israeli museum not so tolerant, group of archaeologists say October 24, 2011 |  2:45 pm | Los Angeles Times| Maher Abukhater    REPORTING FROM JERUSALEM — A group of prominent international archaeologists are among the latest people to publicly denounce plans to build a museum on the site of […]

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Evacuation of Muslim graves ahead of hotel construction challenged in court

Related: Israel even ethnic cleansing cemetaries [ 25/09/2011 – 06:34 PM ] OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC)– Al-Aqsa foundation for endowment and heritage condemned during an appeal heard Sunday by the Israeli Magistrate’s Court the ongoing removal of human remains from a Muslim graveyard in occupied Jaffa, where plans are underway for a Jewish tourist site. Al-Aqsa […]

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Israel approves work on controversial museum

Published today (updated) 13/07/2011 18:07 The grand mufti of Jerusalem and the Palestinian territories Ekrema Sabri inspects the rubble from a destroyed grave at the Mamun Allah cemetery in Jerusalem. Israel’s interior ministry has approved the start of work on a controversial Museum of Tolerance that will be built on the site of the old […]

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Jerusalem municipality evacuates 100 graves in ancient cemetery

[ 26/06/2011 – 10:48 AM ] OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC)–  Israeli occupation’s Jerusalem municipality destroyed some one hundred tombs Sunday morning in the historic Islamic Ma’manullah cemetery, Al-Aqsa Foundation has reported in a newsflash. The foundation said it received a phone call from Abu Sheikha, advisor for Jerusalem and Al-Aqsa Mosque affairs to the Islamic Movement in 1948-occupied […]

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Israel moves Muslim skeletons making way for hotel in Jaffa

[ 20/06/2011 – 11:54 AM ] NAZARETH, (PIC)– The Israel Antiquities Authority has been working with a local company to build a tourist hotel on the ruins of a Muslim cemetery near the Grand Mosque in the Palestinian port city of Jaffa, Al-Aqsa Islamic heritage foundation said in a statement Sunday. It said the IAA […]

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Islamic Council warns against new licences for Jewish museum in Muslim cemetery

  Tuesday, 07 June 2011 12:15 | MEMO The legal advisor of the Supreme Islamic Council in occupied Palestine has warned the Israeli occupation authorities about building a Jewish museum in the historic Ma’man Allah Islamic cemetery in the occupied city of Jerusalem. According to Mr Qais Nasser, the Municipality of occupied Jerusalem is considering […]

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Jerusalem municipality to destroy 200 graves at Islamic historical cemetery

[ 20/01/2011 – 09:37 AM ]   OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC)– The Israeli Magistrate court approved a municipality request to excavate 200 graves in Jerusalem’s largest Islamic cemetery, the Aqsa Foundation said. Several key Islamic figures have been buried at the historic Ma’manullah cemetery. Israel’s Jerusalem municipality and Land Administration asked the court’s approval to demolish […]

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Israeli occupation to build a hotel on the ruins of the Qashala cemetery

[ 14/01/2011 – 06:17 PM ]   NAZARETH, (PIC)– The Aqsa Foundation for Endowment and Heritage (AFEH) said that the Israeli occupation has started building a hotel on the ruins of the historical Qashala cemetery next to the Grand Mosque in the occupied city of Yaffa. Dozens of graves have been bulldozed after the Israeli […]

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Israeli court to discuss request to demolish more graves in ancient cemetery

[ 20/10/2010 – 09:41 AM ]   OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC)– The Israeli Magistrates Court will hold Wednesday a crucial hearing to assess a request by the occupation state’s Jerusalem municipality and the Israeli Land Authority (ILA) to demolish around 220 more graves in the historical Ma’manullah cemetery in Jerusalem. The session will be attended by […]

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