PALESTINE: UAE sponsors maintenance works for three mosques

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Att.Editors: The following item is by the United Arab Emirates news agency (WAM)

JERUSALEM, Feb 14 2003 (IPS) - The United Arab Emirates (UAE) Red Crescent Society (RCS) completed maintenance works for three historical mosques in three main cities in Palestine across the green line.

A report to the Emirates’ Friend Society (EFS), which supervises the RCS projects and humanitarian aid in Palestine, said that the project whose cost reached 40,000 dollars took 10 months to complete the works and the three mosques are now in a good condition for prayers to be performed comfortably.

Same Makawi, Director of the EFS office in Jerusalem, said that the maintenance works covered the Hassan Beg Historical Mosque in Java at the Mediterranean Coast, Bab Al Ludd Mosque in Al Ludd City and Al Halisa Mosque in Haifa.