The Israeli occupation forces on Wednesday night stormed the eastern area of Nablus city in large numbers and secured the entry of hundreds of Jewish settlers for rituals.
According to local sources scores of Israeli soldiers were deployed at the Huwara checkpoint south of Nablus and others swarmed the eastern area of Nablus before a huge number of settlers aboard buses entered the area and performed rituals at Joseph’ Tomb.
The settlers’ visit to the tomb came after extremist Jewish groups incited their followers on social media to march en masse to the shrine and attend the inauguration of the renewed tomb which was renovated recently.
Jewish settlers and soldiers enter the eastern area of Nablus almost every week at the pretext of performing rituals at the shrine but their unwelcome presence in the city and the unbearable noises they create during their alleged prayers there usually provoke clashes with local young men.
Jewish settlers and groups claim that Joseph’s Tomb belongs to a biblical figure but the fact is that it is the grave of a Palestinian religious figure called Sheikh Yousef Duweikat.
