The following draft resolution submitted by human rights champions Algeria, Egypt, Lebanon, Morocco, Oman, Qatar, and Sudan is set to be debated at UNESCO’s 199th session of the Executive Board.
14. Calls on Israel, the Occupying Power, to stop violations against the Waqf properties east and south of Al-Aqsa Mosque/Al-Haram Al-Sharif, such as the recent confiscations of parts of AlYoussefeyah cemetery and Al-Sawanah area by banning Muslims from burying their dead in some spaces and by planting Jewish fake graves in other spaces of the Muslim cemeteries, in addition to the dramatic change of the status and distinctive character of the Umayyad Palaces, in particular the violation of the continued conversion of many Islamic and Byzantine remains into the so-called Jewish ritual baths or into Jewish prayer places;
I have no idea to what they are referring.
But seriously, I was going to respond but I see Elder of Ziyon has beaten me to it.
This lie has been around since 2012, when the Al Aqsa Foundation for Endowment and Heritage claimed that Israel planted thousands of fake graves around the Temple Mount.
In 2013 a Muslim cleric in Jerusalem claimed that the ancient Mount of Olives cemetery was filed with fake Jewish graves.
In 2014 another Muslim committee claimed that Israel created a new cemetery also filled with fake graves.
The irony of course is that Muslims have been proven to be planting hundreds of fake graves for years.
I would also add that not only have they been planting hundreds of fake graves for years, but also planting fake dead people!
Hat tip: Gidon Shaviv
