A Muslim cemetery near the West Bank town of Nablus was vandalized on Tuesday just hours after Jewish worshippers were seen in the vicinity.
Food remnants were left on a number of graves, three tombstones were damaged, and anti-Arab graffiti was spray-painted elsewhere in the Muslim cemetery in the Palestinian town of Awarta.
The discovery was made hours after Israel Defense Forces soldiers, ultra-Orthodox Jews, and Israeli settlers were seen entering the cemetery.
Some Jewish scholars believe that Ithamar and Eleazar, two sons of Aaron the High Priest, and Pinhas, Eleazar's son, are interred at the Awarta cemetery.
Israelis are forbidden from entering Awarta, although the IDF occasionally organizes group trips for which it provides security.
On Tuesday a large contingent of Orthodox Jews and Israeli settlers made a pilgrimage to the site under the protection of IDF troops.
Awarta residents were startled to discover Wednesday morning that the Muslim tombstones alongside the Jewish gravesites were desecrated.
A fact-finder with B'Tselem, an Israeli human rights organization, interviewed local residents and photographed the damage left behind at the cemetery.
One section featured graffiti written in Russian, which said: "Arabs are gay. I f---ed your mother and your father and your donkey."
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