The United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) has released a statement declaring two Biblical sites in Israel to be mosques, the Christian Broadcast Network website reports today (November 16, 2010).
Rachel's Tomb near Bethlehem and the Cave of the Patriarchs in Hebron were an "integral" part of what UNESCO calls "occupied Palestine."
The declaration comes despite historic evidence that Biblical forefathers Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob were buried in the Cave of the Patriarchs along with their wives.
The site of Rachel's Tomb is believed to be the burial place of the Biblical matriarch Rachel, the favored wife of Jacob. About 750,000 pilgrims -- mostly Jewish and Christian -- visit and pray at the tomb every year.
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