Jewish worshippers desecrate Palestinian cemetery
June 8, 2007
Jewish worshippers desecrated a Palestinian cemetery in the occupied West Bank where they were taken by the army to pray at a holy site, witnesses and military sources said Friday.
Several hundred Israelis arrived in Kifel Hares village where the army imposed a curfew so that the worshippers could gather at the grave where they believe that Biblical figure Joshua is buried, Palestinian witnesses said.
Mayor of the northern village, Ahmed Buzieh, said that Jewish worshippers shouted slogans such as "death to the Arabs" and scrawled insults on the walls before heading onto the cemetery where they desecrated nine tombs.
An Israeli military source said that the religious Jews wrote death to Arabs on the graves and broke stone tombs. "The army is taking the matter with the utmost seriousness," the source said.
