Muslims accused Israel of allowing the construction of a museum over a Muslim cemetery. Members of Israel’s Islamic Movement held a demonstration Wednesday outside an ancient Muslim cemetery in Jerusalem’s Mamilla neighborhood, saying the Museum of Tolerance under construction there was a sacrilege.
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