Divided mosque
Located in Hebron’s Old City under Israeli occupation, the mosque lies in an area where around 400 Israeli occupiers live under the protection of roughly 1,500 Israeli soldiers.
Following the 1994 massacre, in which an Israeli occupier killed 29 Palestinian worshippers, the mosque was divided, with 63 percent allocated to Jews and 37 percent to Muslims.
The mosque was previously open to Muslim worshippers during specific religious occasions, including Eid al-Fitr and Eid al-Adha, but access has been increasingly restricted in recent years.
Dodin said the targeting of the Ibrahimi Mosque comes as part of broader Israeli violations against Palestinians and their property in the occupied West Bank, including killings, arrests, displacement, home demolitions, land bulldozing, and illegal settlement expansion.
He also said more than 20 new settlement outposts had been established across the governorate.
The governor said local authorities documented 763 attacks by Israeli occupiers against Palestinians.
Since October 8, 2023, the Israeli army and Israeli occupiers have killed 1,173 Palestinians, wounded 12,666, abducted about 23,000 and displaced 33,000 others, according to Palestinian figures.
