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<td><span class="PublishedDate">[ 					14/01/2011 &#8211; 06:17 PM ] </span></td>
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<p style="font-size:10pt;">NAZARETH, (PIC)&#8211; The Aqsa Foundation  for Endowment and Heritage (AFEH) said that the Israeli occupation has  started building a hotel on the ruins of the historical Qashala cemetery  next to the Grand Mosque in the occupied city of Yaffa.</p>
<p style="font-size:10pt;">Dozens of graves have been bulldozed  after the Israeli occupation antiquities authority dug the graveyard  affording no respect for this historical Islamic site.</p>
<p style="font-size:10pt;">The Qashala cemetery is part of the  Barreya cemetery which was used by Muslims during the Mamluk period then  during the Ottoman period.</p>
<p style="font-size:10pt;">A statement by AFEH  on Thursday said that  representatives of the foundation made a field visit to the cemetery on  Thursday and found out that Zionist firms  had already started with  wide scale preparations for the construction of a building, including  moving large bulldozers and construction plant onto the site,   bulldozing large areas, digging for foundation columns  and starting  construction works.</p>
<p style="font-size:10pt;">AFEH added that according to information  available to it the hotel being built on the ruins of the cemetery is  going to consist of a number of floors underground and a number of  floors above ground which means the complete destruction of the  historical cemetery and will also have a negative impact on  the Grand  Mosque</p>
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<p><a href="http://www.palestine-info.co.uk/En/default.aspx?xyz=U6Qq7k%2bcOd87MDI46m9rUxJEpMO%2bi1s77w0eyqSIasAaGa0ho9P7kGBvMz04nXNXm4Nfu3riEY3A5P6zEzm6beVfPd%2feNGgc1gGk1voDE%2bP3gZVoNxrqRA3MeVlx8v3lYrtGWGd58Yc%3d">Israeli occupation to build a hotel on the ruins of the Qashala cemetery</a>.</p>
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