Hundreds of Israeli settlers stormed at daybreak Friday Islamic shrines in Nablus’s southern town of Ourata and performed sacrilegious rituals.
Speaking with PIC Palestinian resident of Ourata Ali Louleh said Israeli settler hordes escorted by Israeli military forces flocked late on Thursday evening to the Hawara checkpoint to the south of Nablus.
Around 10 buses carrying Israeli settlers showed up at the scene Louleh stated.
According to Louleh the Israeli settlers broke into al-Uzair and al-Sab’ine holy sites while heavily-armed Israeli troops have been deployed on the main access roads to the town to protect the settlers.
Overnight the Israeli forces closed the Hawara checkpoint after Israeli settler groups announced their intent to defile Islamic shrines in Ourata.
Researcher Abdul Salam Awad a native of Ourata town also told the PIC that the voices of the settlers as they burst into hysterics in the break-in have come out boisterous.
Awad warned that such assaults make part of Israeli attempts to Judaize Islamic shrines and hold sway over Palestinian land in the area.
