Settlers storm 14 tombs in Nablus and 3 in “Salfit” .. and attack the residents
Palestinian fears of turning Islamic shrines into settlement outposts
The shrines of "Awarta" are constantly subjected to incursions by settlers.
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"Kifl Haris" includes 3 historical Islamic shrines.
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Slogans written by settlers inside the Kifl Haris shrine (B'Tselem).
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The shrine of the “seventy old men” inside the cemetery of the town of Awarta.
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Inside the town of Kifl Haris, north of Salfit Governorate, in the northern West Bank, the walls of historic Islamic shrines and shrines bore racist expressions in Hebrew, written by settlers who storm these archaeological sites day and night, which bear hostility to the Palestinians and their sanctities, most notably, “Death to the Arabs.”
The town of "Kifl Haris" hosts the Islamic shrines of "Yusha'", "Dhul-Nun" and "Dhu al-Kifl", and within the neighboring governorate of Nablus, there are many religious shrines to the east and south, while the settlers claim that these shrines are Jewish, and they practice hostile and arbitrary behavior against The Palestinians, with the aim of controlling them, and imposing the alleged narratives on the history of these holy places.
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On the other hand, the Palestinians deny these allegations, and assert that these shrines are Islamic, and prayers were held inside their courtyards until the sixties of the last century. Inside these shrines there are prayer niches and shrines, which the residents say are Islamic, and this is evident and evident from the method of burial.
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In the face of the continuous settlement attacks, the Palestinians are afraid of converting Islamic shrines located in their towns hundreds of years ago into settlement outposts, as a result of the frequent incursions by thousands of settlers under the protection of the Israeli army, under the pretext of holding religious rituals in historical shrines dating back to the time of Salah al-Din, such as the shrine of Salah al-Din al-Ayyubi. “Yushua” is in “Kifl Haris”, and another was built during the Mamluk era, such as “The Shrine of the Seventy Sheikhs” in the town of “Awarta” south of the city of Nablus.
In Kifl Haris, 4,500 Palestinians live in a state of extreme panic when settlers storm their town, to turn it into a military barracks, as a result of the spread of the occupation forces to secure the entry and exit of settlers to perform their Talmudic rituals, as they claim, inside religious shrines and shrines. With stones, and directed insults against the Palestinians, according to the researcher in settlement affairs in Salfit, Khaled Maali.
His Excellency said to "Emirates Today", in an exclusive interview: "The settlers' targeting of Islamic shrines in Salfit Governorate, specifically the town of (Kifl Haris) does not stop, in addition to their attempts to forge the names of these shrines and their ancient archaeological civilization."
The researcher in settlement affairs points out that the Islamic shrines in Kifl Haris, before the 1967 occupation, witnessed the establishment of Palestinian festivals and religious ceremonies, and there are still niches for prayer facing the Qiblah.
Maali continues by saying: "The occupation creates a false history, by spreading false stories, to establish the settlers' feet on the Palestinian land, and to confiscate large areas of dunams inside West Bank towns, in the interest of settlement expansion, and to restrict the residents to force them to leave."
He points out that Israel has jeopardized the names of several Islamic shrines in the West Bank, and Palestinians are prohibited from entering them, in addition to the occupation’s generalization of false narratives through tour guides, to overturn the facts, and change the historical narratives of Islamic shrines, in order to reach the ultimate goal, which is to obliterate the Palestinian Arab identity. .
Attacks and vandalism
Moving to the town of Awarta in the southern countryside of Nablus, with a population of 7,500 people, the beauty of green nature coincides with an endless archaeological urban extension within sight, where shrines, domes, arches and niches were designed with elaborate geometric shapes, to adorn Islamic religious shrines, built in the Mamluk and Ayyubid eras.
However, the occupation refuses to complete this beauty, as these religious shrines were not spared the incursions of settlement groups and the sabotage operations that affected the shrines and their tombs, according to the researcher in Palestinian history and activist against settlement in Awarta, Sheikh Abdul Salam Awad.
Awad asks, "The settlers claim that storming religious shrines is for the purpose of performing Talmudic religious rituals. So is it among the rituals of the rituals to destroy graves and their tombs, and to destroy shrines and their walls?!"
He added: "(Awarta) occupies the first place in embracing Islamic religious shrines on the level of Palestine, and it is part of the expansion of urban construction in the Mamluk and Ayyubid eras, as a means of military, security and sovereign political communication at that time, and it remained lofty and rooted throughout the ages and ages, to this day. this".
The number of shrines in ‘Awarta is 14 religious shrines, the most prominent of which are: “The Seventy Sheikhs”, “Al-Mufaddal”, “Al-Uzair”, “Al-Ajam Al-Arba’a”, “Al-Rifa’at”, “Hosha’s Tomb”, “Sheikh Al-Mansoori”, and “Raba’”. And "Youshua bin Noun" and "Sheikh Surur".
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