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Israeli soldiers stole a number of sensitive documents which map out the structure of 90 percent of Jerusalem from the city's al-Quds Islamic Waqf, its head Hassan Khater reported Monday.
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The director said the incident took place over the course of three days beginning on July 14 after a shootout that left three Palestinians and two Israeli police officers dead.
The stolen documents include title deeds detailing the group’s ownership of a certain large collection of immovable properties and confidential files with information of mosques and religious courthouses. The concern, Khater said, is the information taken could potentially enable Tel Aviv to retake the properties, which Palestinians have accused the occupying force of attempting to do.
Israeli police forces occupied the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound and closed it off to access after July 1, only to reopen the compound after installing metal detectors and heightened security at its entrances.
After two weeks of Palestinian resistance and protests against the tightened grip that the Israeli government had imposed on Palestinians in the Old City of occupied East Jerusalem, where worshippers preferred to hold prayers outdoors instead of enter the mosque, Israel had to backtrack and remove all metal detectors, cameras and barricades from the site
The latest figures show 15 Palestinians killed and around 1,400 injured in Tel-Aviv related skirmishes.
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