Flowers laid by relatives at the plot were scattered around the memorial during Sunday night's desecration of the graves. |
If 5 Iyyar falls on Friday or Shabbat, the celebrations are held on Thursday, so as to avoid a desecration of Shabbat Lag ba-Omer. |
She is an Egyptian archaeologist prominent in the campaign to prevent the desecration of historic sites. |
They say marking and documenting the sites is a concern because of a long history of grave robbing and desecration. |
This is an act of desecration and vandalism and it is very disappointing from our point of view and upsetting for visitors that this property has been stolen. |
Worries that such a new building would be a desecration of a war memorial are nonsense, Mr Roberts insists. |