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PA police extract tourists who were mobbed trying to pray at Joseph’s Tomb in Nablus
The compound of Joseph's Tomb in the West Bank city of Nablus, April 10, 2022. (Nasser Ishtayeh/Flash90)
Five foreign tourists entered Joseph’s Tomb in the West Bank city of Nablus illegally and had to be extracted by Palestinian Authority police after they were attacked by an angry mob.
One of the tourists was lightly injured after being hit by stones hurled by Palestinians.
Israelis regularly enter Joseph’s Tomb — located in PA-controlled Area A of the West Bank, which is off limits to Israeli civilians — in controversial overnight visits that are coordinated with the army, but today’s entrance was uncoordinated.
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