The Israeli occupation forces arrested three citizens at dawn today, Friday, during their raid on the city of Nablus, and raided a number of mosques in the old city and prevented the dawn prayer from being held there.

Security and local sources reported that occupation forces stormed several neighborhoods of the city and its old town, and fired live bullets, tear gas and sound bombs.

She added that the occupation forces raided a number of homes, searched them, and wreaked havoc on them, and arrested three citizens: Majd Muhyi al-Din Subh from Kashika Street, Ataya Muhammad Tabuk, and Omar Jihad al-Qawqa from inside the Old City.

The occupation forces raided and vandalized a number of mosques, including: Al-Satoun Mosque in Al-Yasmina neighborhood, Ajaj Mosque in Al-Basha Street, Al-Salahi Al-Kabir Mosque in the Eastern Market, Al-Tina Mosque in Al-Qaryoun neighborhood, Al-Nasr Mosque in Bab Al-Saha, and Al-Baik Mosque in Al-Nasr Street, all of which are located in different areas of the Old City.

The Ministry of Endowments and Religious Affairs condemned the occupation forces’ storming and searching of the mosques in the Old City, in a move that is considered a dangerous precedent of this magnitude and timing in the holy month of Ramadan, in which the occupation desecrates its sanctity by storming the mosques before dawn prayers and preventing prayers from being held in them.

The ministry said: This dangerous incursion in its size and timing is nothing but a systematic step taken by this occupation, the details of which have become clear in the desecration of our sanctities, mosques and places of worship, disregarding human rights, especially those related to freedom of worship and the right to access them, and disregarding the feelings of Muslims towards the desecration of their sanctities under the eyes and ears of the world.

In Hebron, the occupation forces stormed the Fawwar camp in the south, raided a number of citizens’ homes and ransacked their contents, and arrested the freed prisoner Fares Adel al-Titi after severely beating him, as well as Mahmoud Ali Abu Warda, Ismail Yaghi, Muhammad Ahmad al-Najjar, and Mahmoud Nael al-Titi.

It also stormed the town of Dura in the south, and arrested Abdullah Amer Al-Darabi, Muhammad Al-Darabi, Akram Al-Fasfous, Humam Ali Hantash, Issa Yousef Al-Awawdeh, Aref Salama Ahribat, and Muhammad Salama Awidat, and arrested Ismail Hussein Qadimat from the town of Kharas in the west.

In the same context, the occupation forces continued to close the towns, camps and entrances to the city of Hebron with iron gates and earth mounds, and tightened their military measures in the neighborhoods of the Old City, the vicinity of the Ibrahimi Mosque and the military checkpoints.

The Ministry of Endowments called on the international community and international institutions concerned with human rights and heritage preservation to work to stop these attacks and end them completely. The mosques that were desecrated by the occupation at dawn today, in addition to being places of worship, are historical heritage buildings that are affected by the barbarity of this occupation.