RAMALLAH, Wednesday, February 02, 2022 (WAFA) – Israeli settlers Wednesday overnight stormed Joseph’s Tomb in the northern West Bank city of Nablus, sparking confrontations, according to security sources.

A sizable Israeli force, comprising dozens of military vehicles and a bulldozer, escorted two buses packed with fanatic Jewish settlers into the site, located in the Palestinian-controlled area, sparking confrontations with Palestinian residents.

Soldiers opened fire on Palestinians protesting the raid and attempting to block settlers’ access to the site. No injuries were reported though.

The site of Joseph’s Tomb is contentious. Palestinians believe the site to be the funerary monument to Sheikh Yousef Dweikat, a local religious figure, while Israeli settlers believe it to belong to the Biblical Patriarch Joseph.

Israel  uses the Jewish nationalist name “Judea and Samaria” to refer to the occupied West Bank to reinforce its bogus claims to the territory and to give them a veneer of historical and religious legitimacy.

There are over 700,000 Israeli settlers living in colonial settlements in the West Bank and East Jerusalem in violation of international law.

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