Hundreds of extremist Jewish settlers at dawn Friday stormed the Palestinian town of Awarta east of Nablus in the occupied West Bank and performed rituals in the vicinity of an ancient shrine.
Local researcher Abdul-Salam Awwad said that several buses carrying settlers entered at dawn the western neighborhood of the town under military protection.
Awwad added that dozens of soldiers and settlers performed Talmudic rituals on the site amid drone overflights in the area.
