Thousands of "Israeli" police forces have invaded a Bedouin-Palestinian mosque in southern OPT, forcing the praying locals out and razing the building to the ground.

According to AFP, the operation was carried out in the Bedouin city of Rahat on Sunday.

"They went into the mosque and arrested those who were praying inside, including me, and drove us outside the city until the operation was over," Yusuf Abu Jamer, a local resident was quoted as saying.

The police used tear gas canisters and rubber bullets to disperse the outraged residents who took to the streets in protest.

"Israeli" authorities, however, claimed that the mosque did not have an authorization permit.

In July, the city was swarmed with several hundreds of Bedouins who had their similarly "illegally-built" houses demolished during a surge by the "Israeli" police.

Last month, "Israeli" extremists vandalized a mosque in the north of the city of Al Khalil (Hebron) in the occupied West Bank, also burned copies of the Holy Quran, not to mention repeated attacks on Al Aqsa mosque compound.