Al-Ahmar Mosque, which was Built in 1276, with rare Historic and Architectural value, and has long been one of the most historical mosques in the Arab city of Safed, northern occupied Palestine, Was turned into a bar, nightclub and events hall, where anything is allowed except Praying!
Being one of the most historical mosques in the Arab city, didn’t prevent it to be stolen by the Jewish gangs in 1948, and the mosque was first turned into a Jewish school, then into a centre for Likud’s elections campaigns and then into a clothes warehouse before finally being converted into a nightclub.
Khair Tabari, secretary of Safed and Tiberias Islamic Endowment, has been trying to save the historic site for years. He had filed a lawsuit demanding the mosque be returned to the endowment, with documents proving its Islamic ownership. The Nazareth court has not yet ruled on the years-old case.
“I felt dizzy when I noticed the vandalism inside the mosque, as can be seen by the remains of Qu’ranic verses which were removed from the pulpit and replaced by the Ten Commandments in Hebrew,” Tabari told London-based Al-Quds Al-Arabi newspaper.
Israeli authorities are accused of systematically encroaching on Islamic sites in occupied Palestinian territories with the aim of obliterating their identity.
Israeli Jews and soldiers have repeatedly raided Al Aqsa Mosque in Occupied, which is Islam’s third holiest site.
“Jews have altered most mosques and Palestinian endowments, mainly in towns and villages where their local people were forced to leave and occupied by Jews, who evicted Muslims and Christians from them,” said Palestinian Minister of Awqaf and Religious Affairs Yusuf Adais.
