Yesterday evening, Monday, the Israeli occupation police closed a number of roads leading to the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood in Jerusalem.

According to local sources, a resident of the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood told Al-Quds correspondent that the occupation forces closed these roads to secure the settlers’ storming of the place in celebration of the Hebrew “Torch Day”.

The sources added that the occupation police set up several barriers at the entrances to Sheikh Jarrah, to prevent the arrival of vehicles and to secure settlers’ incursions into the “tomb of Shimon al-Siddiq.”

It is mentioned that in order for the extremist Jews to create rituals for this grave, they began to repeat the rituals of the “Feast of the Flame” at it in the context of their endeavor to insert the biblical narrative on the geography of occupied Jerusalem and obliterate the Palestinian presence.