Hawzah News Agency - (Occupied Palestine) - Israeli troops reportedly invaded, early on Wednesday morning, Prophet Saleh’s tombstone area, east of the Ithna town, west of Al - Khalil.

Local Palestinian sources said that the Israeli forces invaded the tombstone area, which is one of several religious and monumental sites in the southern West Bank district of Al - Khalil.

The sources added that the Israeli troops were accompanied by Israeli officials, apparently from the Israeli monuments ministry and that those officials were showing maps and documents.

Local Palestinian residents in the Al - Khalil area expressed their deep concern that such an Israeli army invasion constitutes a prelude to a full Israeli control over the religious site, to which illegal Israeli colonists, backed by Israeli troops, pay frequent visits

It is important to note that Israeli Defense Minister, Naftali Bennett recently approved the Israeli confiscation of the land in the vicinity of the Al-Ibrahimi or Ibrahimi Mosque, also located in  Al - Khalil.