Residents of Jaffa protesting on May 15, 2021. (Photo: AP Photo/Heidi Levine)
Last weekend Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu described as “terrorists” those Palestinian citizens who have been protesting decades of state-sponsored discrimination. Vowing that “anyone who acts like a terrorist will be handled like one”, he said: “Arab law-breakers are attacking Jews, burning synagogues and Jewish homes.”
Netanyahu has been far from alone in his denunciations of nearly two weeks of protests inside Israel by the fifth of Israel’s population who are Palestinian by origin. They are the remnants of the Palestinian people, most of whom were ethnically cleansed at Israel’s founding in 1948.
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Archaeologists Find Remains of Rare , Ancient Mosque from 670 AD in Israeli City of Tiberias
This 2014 aerial photo shows the site of the Al-Juma (Friday) Mosque in Tiberias, northern Israel. | Image credit: AP
This mosque’s foundations, excavated just south of the Sea of Galilee, point to its construction roughly a generation after the death of the Prophet Mohammad, making it one of the earliest Muslim houses of worship to be studied by archaeologists.
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Archaeologists in Israel say they have discovered the remnants of an early mosque believed to date to the earliest decades of Islam during an excavation in the northern city of Tiberias.
Archaeologists in Israel say they have discovered the remnants of an early mosque â believed to date to the earliest decades of Islam â during an excavation in the northern city of Tiberias.
This mosqueâs foundations, excavated just south of the Sea of Galilee by the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, point to its construction roughly a generation after the death of the Prophet Mohammad, making it one of the earliest Muslim houses of worship to be studied by archaeologists.
âWe know about many early mosques that were founded right in the beginning of the Islamic period,â said Katia Cytryn-Silverman, a specialist in Islamic archaeology at Hebrew University who heads the dig.