According to multiple sources, a Palestinian boy was shot and killed by Israeli forces during clashes that broke out during a visit by right-wing Israeli politicians to the site of “Joseph’s Tomb” near the city of Nablus in the north of the occupied West Bank.
The Palestinian Ministry of Health stated that “15-year-old Mahdi Muhammad Hashash died from serious injuries caused by shrapnel that hit various parts of his body during the storming of the city of Nablus by the occupiers yesterday at dawn.”
The Al-Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigades, the military wing of the Fatah movement led by Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, issued a statement saying: “Mahdi Hashash of the Balata camp is one of its fighters and became a martyr during armed clashes with the occupying army next to the tomb of Joseph.
The Jewish Settlement Organization said the site was visited by eight Israeli members of the outgoing Knesset, elected on November 1, including members of the right-wing Likud party led by Benjamin Netanyahu and the far-right Religious Zionism Alliance. the person who planted the bomb in the area, talking about injuring a person. The Palestinian Red Crescent Society said: “Three more people were injured during the clashes.”
Palestinians consider Joseph’s tomb an Islamic archaeological site, and until 1967 “Maqam Joseph” was a mosque before Israeli forces took control of it, closed it down and turned it into a Jewish shrine.
