*S5M-22399 John Finnie: UNESCO Heritage Site Hebron—That the Parliament notes that, in 2017, UNESCO recognised the old city of Hebron in the West Bank as a Palestinian world heritage site; acknowledges that the designation includes a holy site, known to Muslims as the Ibrahimi Mosque, and to Jews as the Tomb of the Patriarchs; supports the Chairman of Jerusalem’s Committee in the Palestinian Legislative Council’s condemnation of Israel’s reported expropriation of part of Al-Ibrahimi Mosque, which it understands took away the Palestinian Authority’s municipality of Hebron from its supervision over the Mosque; further supports his reported view that handing control of the Mosque to the Settlement Planning Council “is a new crime”; shares concerns at reports that this measure aims to expropriate the lands of the Mosque to build new Jewish settlement projects; considers the Israeli actions to be a violation of right to ownership of Al-Ibrahim and the other endowments around it; condemns the Israeli court’s reported dismissal of a petition filed by Hebron municipality requesting that it cancel the previous permission it had granted for the Settlement Planning Council to install an elevator inside Al- Ibrahimi Mosque; shares fears that the cumulative effect of such acts, and what it sees as an Israeli assertion of sovereignty, would be de facto annexation; hopes that this site, like all other UNESCO heritage sites, can be a place for peaceful coexistence, and calls on all parties to adhere to international law and humanitarian norms.