Hundreds of extremist Jewish settlers on Tuesday stormed the Sheikh as-Saadi tomb in the east Jerusalem neighborhood of Sheikh Jarrah amid tight police measures.
According to local sources the settlers entered the area of the tomb which they falsely call Shimon HaTzadik under police protection while playing loud music and dancing hysterically.
Meanwhile the Israeli occupation police set up six makeshift checkpoints in the vicinity of the place and prevented the local residents from entering or leaving the neighborhood during the settlers’ presence in the area.
Local residents in Sheikh Jarrah believe that the tomb belongs to Sheikh as-Saadi the forefather of the noted Hijazi family in Jerusalem while Jewish settlers claim the place as a holy Jewish shrine as part of their many efforts to falsify its history and to take over control of the entire holy city.
