The Israeli municipality of Askalan, south of Palestine occupied in 1948, has turned an Islamic cemetery in the city into a car park, Hebrew press indicated.
Ma’ariv newspaper reported on Monday that the municipality used the graveyard as a car park to serve shoppers in a recently built nearby commercial center, in absolute disregard of the sanctity of the place.
It quoted an inhabitant as saying that he filed a complaint with the municipality but to no avail.
For his part, Arab member of the Israeli parliament Ahmed Al-Tibi denounced the step, saying that if a Jewish cemetery in France was turned into a car park Israel would have feverishly complained. He asked the municipality to stop using the cemetery as a car park immediately.
