Jerusalem 16-7-2009/ PNN - Violations of the international laws that make Israeli measures to overtake East Jerusalem illegal are on a serious rise.

Neighborhoods like Silwan and Sheikh Jarrah are continuing to resist threats of home demolition and land confiscation by hosting Friday prayers today. But stopping the occupying Israeli administration is far off.

This week the Israelis excavated 300 Islamic graves in Ma’man Allah Cemetery. With the help of the “Museum of Tolerance” in Los Angeles, the Israeli-controlled Jerusalem Municipality is continuing work to place another “Museum of Tolerance” atop the Muslim cemetery.

 

When the Israelis took the skeletons from 300 graves this week, the Palestinian Centre for Human Rights confirms, they dumped them into one mass grave.

The Ma’man Allah Cemetery near Hebron Gate in Jerusalem began being systematically destroyed for this museum two years ago. A court case slowed it down.

The cemetery is approximately 200 dunams in size and includes graves of Muslim intellectuals and soldiers who fought the Crusaders in the city as part of Salah Addin‘s army.

Also in the city this week as part of public Israeli efforts intended to establish a Jewish majority in occupied East Jerusalem, they demolished two houses in Beit Hanina and Silwan claiming that they were built without permits.