Israeli war minister Naftali Bennett on Sunday night desecrated the Ibrahimi Mosque in al-Khalil at the pretext of marking a Jewish event called Hanukkah.
According to the Hebrew media Bennett was accompanied during his tour of the Mosque by senior army commander Itamar Ben-Haim Kiryat Arba settlement chief Eliyahu Liebman and Jewish religious figures.
Addressing settlers at the Islamic holy site Bennett claimed that al-Khalil was the heart of Israel and that the Jewish people could not live without this heart.
He vowed to build more settlements and neighborhoods for Jewish settlers in al-Khalil affirming that he became the minister of the Israeli army in order to achieve that.
