An Israeli mayor stormed into a mosque in the town of Lod on Friday in a bid to stop its broadcasting the call to prayer and Eid al-Adha prayers through its speakers. Video footage showed Mayor Yair Revivo accompanied by Israeli police enter the mosque in Lod, where he attempted to shut off the speakers. He accused the mosque of disturbing people in the area and claimed that he had been “hit” by worshippers who tried to stop him from shutting down the speakers.
Witnesses told Yaffa 48, a local Palestinian media outlet, that Israeli police had assaulted and pushed people during the raid. They added that Revivo had assaulted a worshipper who was filming the incident. While the raid was taking place, worshippers continued to enter the mosque and pray, according to Maan News.
Revivo last year vowed to drown out the noise from mosque speakers with Jewish prayers after residents had complained to him about the sound. On Friday, he described the sound from the speakers as a “daily suffering and annoyance” and “clear breach of the law on noise” to Jews who lived near the mosque. Lod is a city in central Israel near Tel Aviv which has a mixed population of Jews and Palestinians.
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