Violent clashes on Monday night broke out between Palestinian youths and Israeli soldiers after the latter stormed the eastern area of Nablus city to secure roads for Jewish settlers before they flocked to Joseph’s Tomb for rituals.
According to local sources dozens of local young men clashed with the Israeli occupation forces who intensively used tear gas and stun grenades during the skirmishes.
The youths responded by throwing stones and incendiary bottles at the soldiers. No reports of casualties among the protesters.
Later dozens of cars and buses carrying Jewish settlers stormed the area under military escort and gathered at the mausoleum for rituals.
Israeli troops and settlers storm every week the eastern area of Nablus to perform rituals at the tomb which they falsely think is the resting-place of the biblical patriarch Joseph while locals and Palestinian historians affirm that the grave belongs to a local medieval Muslim sheikh called Yousef al-Duwaik.
