At least 12 Palestinian citizens suffered bullet injuries during violent overnight clashes with the Israeli occupation forces (IOF) in the east of Nablus city where hundreds of Jewish settlers visited Joseph’s Tomb for rituals.
According to medical sources four Palestinian young men suffered live bullet injuries in their lower extremities while eight others suffered rubber bullet injuries.
Many young men also suffered from their exposure to tear gas 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 al-Duweik.
