The Israeli occupation army has allowed the construction of a multi-story apartment building for Jewish settlers in place of the central vegetables market known locally as “al-Hisba” in the Old City of Hebron
The army radio quoted Israeli war minister Avigdor Lieberman as saying that the place where the building would be constructed belonged to Jews before the establishment of Israe
According to a statement released by the Israeli army, the settlers’ project was suspended for about 20 years for legal issues, but legal adviser of the army Itai Ophir formulated a legal opinion that allows, for the first time, the advancement of building procedures at the site
The Palestinian market, which was shuttered following a 1994 terror attack at the Ibrahimi Mosque in which extremist Jewish settler Baruch Goldstein massacred many Palestinian worshipers, is actually Islamic mortmain property endowed by Tamim bin Aws ad-Dari, one of Prophet Muhammad’s companions
