Dozens of Jewish settlers led by rabbis and senior settler leaders stormed the Masoudia area in Burqa village northwest of Nablus under Israeli occupation forces’ protection on Friday morning.
The anti-settlement activist Thiab Hajji affirmed that a group of senior settlers and officials stormed the Masoudia area where they received lectures from a rabbi about an alleged temple in the area.
Meanwhile the Israeli occupation forces imposed movement restrictions on Palestinian residents at the entrance of the area.
The Masoudia area is one of the Palestinian archaeological sites dating back to 1914 AD. It includes the main station for the Hejaz Railway which was used to link Palestine with the Hejaz region in Saudi Arabia.
The IOF had turned the area into military barracks after destroying its historical railway.
Since then the area has been subjected to frequent incursions by settler groups as part of the Israeli systematic Judaization schemes.
