Three days after Arab rioters burned Joseph's Tomb in Shechem (Nablus), the Samaria Regional Council sent an official delegation on Sunday night to inspect the damage at the holy site.I was not there and I cannot confirm the account or the inferences drawn from it. But this is the only account I can find of what the current state of the site is. I do note that the Palestinian Authority has officially condemned the attack.
The delegation was led by Sephardic Chief Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef, Samaria Regional Council Head Yossi Dagan, Samaria Chief Rabbi Elyakim Levanon, and Dagan's deputy Davidi Ben-Tzion. IDF commanders tasked with the region were also present, as were arson damage inspectors.
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The Samaria Regional Council is currently checking how it can work to restore the site, Dagan announced, commenting on the burned out chambers: "these are horrific and difficult sights."
"It makes no sense to come to the center of the land of Israel to one of the holiest sites to the Jewish nation, an international heritage site, and it's completely desecrated and broken," said Dagan.
"These are horrific sights that prove with a certainty that the Palestinian Authority was involved. A rabble couldn't cause such damage over such time without the (Palestinian) Authority catching wind of it."
Enumerating the damage inflicted, he added, "the marble on the grave marker is completely broken. The floors are broken. The ceiling is broken. Everything is burned. We need to think about how to restore the site, to clean and prepare it to take in thousands of worshipers again."
"And beyond the physical repair, we need to do some soul searching as to how it happened that in the center of the state, a place that is so holy is desecrated, and the world is nearly completely silent."
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