Zionist settlers storm archaeological area south of Hebron

ALQUDS, 25 (YPA) – A group of armed Zionist settlers stormed on Wednesday an archaeological site in the villages of Abu al Urqan and Rabud, south of the city of Hebron, in the southern West Bank.

Local sources reported that large groups of the settlers, under the protection of the Israeli occupation forces, targeted the two villages, stopped citizens, and checked their identities.

The sources affirmed that the Israeli occupation forces prevented citizens from moving, in order to secure the settlers’ arrival to the “Old Rabud” archaeological area, and to perform Talmudic prayers there.

Last July, the Palestinian Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities called on international organizations concerned with heritage to confront the occupation’s decision to annex Palestinian archaeological sites in the Bank.

The Israeli Knesset General Assembly approved a draft law that stipulates that the powers of the Israeli Antiquities Authority apply to antiquities in all areas of the occupied West Bank.

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