Israeli settlers yesterday broke into Kifl Haris town to the north of the West Bank district of Salfit and proceeded to desecrate the Islamic shrines there.
A large number of settlers broke into the town in the early hours, and proceeded to “intentionally provoke” the town’s locals by performing religious rituals on the Islamic sites, Palestinian News Agency (WAFA) reported.
Israeli military soldiers reportedly provided the settlers with protection and secured their entrance and exit out of the town, causing a state of tension among the town’s locals.
Head of Kifl Haris municipality, Abdel-Rahim Bothyeh, said the religious sites there are constantly subjected to destruction and desecration by settlers; settlers have previously set fire to the sites.
Meanwhile, Israel’s Jerusalem Municipality local planning and construction committee presented the construction plans for 770 settlement housing units, according to Israeli news website Walla.
The new units will be considered by Israel as part of the Jerusalem district, and will be built between the illegal Gilo settlement and the Palestinian town of Beit Jala, across from the Cremisan monastery in the Bethlehem district of the occupied West Bank.
A Palestinian girl aims a pistol as she prepares to fire at a target during a training session for the families of Hamas officials, organised by Hamas-run Security and Protection Service, in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip yesterday.
