Dozens of Muslim Arabs rioted near the Jewish neighborhood in Hevron Tuesday, continuing a wave of violent rioting that began Monday. The rioters hurled rocks at IDF soldiers and burned tires near an IDF position. The soldiers used stun grenades and tear gas against them.

The violence by the Muslims was sparked by a government decision to include the Cave of Machpelah - Judaism's holiest site outside Jerusalem – in a list of 150 Israeli “National Heritage” sites that will receive added funding from the government.

On Monday, about 100 Arabs rioted in the streets of Hevron, threw rocks and set alight tires near the Jewish neighborhood. One rock lightly injured an IDF soldier. He received initial medical attention on the spot and did not require further treatment.

"Violation of Hague Convention"
The Palestinian Center for Human Rights (PCHR), an Arab group co-financed by the European Commission, Christian Aid (UK) and the Ford Foundation, condemned the decision to include Cave of Machpelah (which PCHR refers to as “the Ibrahimi Mosque”) and Rachel's Tomb (which PCHR calls “Bilal Ben Rabah Mosque”) on the list of heritage sites.

PCHR noted that the decision was taken on the eve of the 16th anniversary of the killing of 29 Muslim worshipers at the Cave of Machpelah by Dr. Baruch Goldstein.

The group stated that the Israeli government's decision constitutes a violation of Article 1 of the Hague Convention for the Protection of Cultural Property in the Event of Armed Conflict of 1954, which calls upon an occupying power to “safeguard and respect” property that is “of noteworthy importance to the cultural heritage of every people, such as monuments of architecture, art or history, whether religious or secular."

PCHR called for the international population “to supply protection for Palestinian civilians, their property and their religious sites.”

Israel supplies free access to all religious sites for members of all religions. Joseph's Tomb, on the other hand, in Shechem has been vandalized many times since it fell into Arab hands some ten years ago.

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