"MK Sharren Haskel (Likud) visited the Cave of the Patriarchs in Hevron on Sunday, ahead of an upcoming vote on a UNESCO resolution declaring the Cave of the Patriarchs a 'Palestinian heritage site'.
'This is a test for the international community. The Palestinian claims are baseless and distort reality. The Palestinians want to rewrite history and use UNESCO as their mouthpiece,' said Haskel.
'As religious sites that are thousands of years old are being destroyed in the Middle East, Israel preserves the sites that are sacred to everyone, and they are open to all religions to visit and pray,' she added...
The World Heritage Committee's 21 members are reportedly scheduled to meet in Krakow, Poland, this week to vote on the Hevron issue..."
July 3, 2017
'The Palestinians are rewriting history' at UNESCO
The Cave of the Patriarchs in Israel, the subject of a UNESCO vote this week on declaring it a "Palestinian heritage site"
Date
July 3, 2017
Title
‘The Palestinians are rewriting history’, Arutz Sheva
Author(s)
Hezki Baruch
Original Source
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