Israel just handed ownership of a historic mosque in Hebron to Jewish settlers. Here’s what that means. – Mondoweiss

In the latest Israeli move to impose its annexation of the West Bank, the Israeli army’s central command transferred the administrative authorities over the Ibrahimi Mosque in Hebron from the Palestinian city’s municipality to the Religious Council of the Israeli settlement of Kiryat Arba’ last week.

Until the latest Israeli decision, the Ibrahimi mosque was run by the Hebron municipality for the maintenance of infrastructure as a Palestinian historical site, and by the…