By YAAKOV LAPPIN, TOVAH LAZAROFF
Police denied that any incident of vandalism occurred at the cave of the Patriarchs on Friday.
They reached this conclusion after dispatching officer to the scene to following on line claims of vandalism. No formal complaint had been lodged and despite appeals by the police to the settler community heads in the area, no one came to speak with the police about the incident.
Hebron's Jewish community sent out a press release on Saturday night in which they alleged that Palestinians on Friday had urinated next to an Ark with Torah scrolls in the Cave of the Patriarchs and had tossed Hamas flags in the area next to the memorials of the the biblical matriarch and patriarchs on Friday.
As a result they asked that Muslims be barred from praying there, including on Fridays. Due to the Ramadan holiday, the cave is open only to Muslims on Fridays for the next month. Jews are prohibited from being there at that time.
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