Violent clashes flared up in Sebastiya town in northern Nablus on Sunday evening shortly after the Israeli occupation forces (IOF) rolled into the area and lowered the Palestinian flag.
IOF soldiers stormed Nablus and lowered a Palestinian flag raised on a flagpole set up in Sebastiya’s archaeological zone before they attacked the Palestinian protesters with heavy spates of teargas canisters and rubber bullets.
The Palestinian anti-occupation youth responded to the assault by hurling stones and empty bottles at the heavily-armed Israeli patrols.
According to eyewitnesses an Israeli military jeep took off the entrance door of a Palestinian home in Sebastiya by tying it to the jeep by an iron chain.
