BETHLEHEM (PIC)– A large group of settlers Friday morning invaded the historic Berak Sulaiman and Qasr al-Mo’tamarat (Convention Palace) in the town of al-Khadr to the south of Bethlehem in the southern West Bank.
Local sources said that about 200 Jewish settlers invaded the two areas under IOF protection and they refuse to leave claiming ownership of the land.
The sources said that the two sites are rich archaeological sites and the settlers have been trying to appropriate them for a long time claiming that they are Jewish sites and Palestinians have no right to them.
The sources added that settlers filmed the area surrounding of Qasr al-Mo’tamarat before moving to the third pool of Berak Sulaiman where they took position and carried out some religious rituals.
The settlers then moved on towards the UM Rukba neighbourhood in the town near a settlement outpost there.
