A Palestinian young man was injured on Monday night when the Israeli occupation forces (IOF) opened fire at his car as hundreds of settlers started to flock to the eastern area of Nablus City to perform rituals at Joseph’s Tomb.
The Red Crescent said that one of its ambulance crews provided first aid for a young man and evacuated him to a hospital after he suffered multiple bullet injuries in his leg.
Local sources affirmed the shooting incident happened as the young man was driving his car on a road in the eastern area of Nablus.
At first Israeli forces claimed the young man tried to carry out a car-ramming attack and prevented an ambulance from reaching the young man but later they admitted that it was an accident and allowed his evacuation from the area.
Meanwhile violent clashes broke out between local youths and the IOF in the eastern area of Nablus city.
The skirmishes which continued into the dawn of Tuesday started after Israeli troops aboard military vehicles stormed the area and spread through its streets in order to provide protection for buses and cars carrying hundreds of settlers.
Local sources said that dozens of young men blocked roads in the eastern area with rocks and burning tires and confronted Israeli soldiers and their patrol vehicles by throwing stones and Molotov cocktails at them.
The IOF intensively used tear gas and rubber bullets in the streets of eastern Nablus but there was no information of other casualties during the events.
Israeli troops and settlers storm almost every week the eastern area of Nablus to perform rituals at the tomb which they think is the resting-place of the biblical patriarch Joseph while locals and Palestinian historians affirm that the grave belongs to a local medieval Muslim sheikh called Yousef ad-Duwaik.
