Israeli occupation forces stormed the Ibrahimi Mosque this evening in the occupied West Bank city of Hebron, preventing the Maghrib prayer from taking place.

Ghassan al-Rajabi, the director-general of the Hebron Waqf Department, informed WAFA that Israeli occupation forces raided the Ibrahimi Mosque, forcing employees and worshipers to leave and prohibiting them from performing the Maghrib prayer.

The soldiers forced the worshipers outside the mosque to secure the incursion by a senior official in the Israeli occupation army, Al-Rajabi added.

He clarified that the incursion occurred despite the decision of the so-called Shamgar Commission, formed following the Ibrahimi Mosque massacre in February 1994. The committee divided the mosque temporally and spatially, prohibiting Israeli soldiers and settlers from entering certain parts of the mosque on Fridays.

Source: Palestine news & Information Agency – WAFA