A round of violent clashes broke out late Monday evening between Palestinian anti-occupation youth and heavily-armed Israeli soldiers who stormed Nablus’s southern corners to secure a break-in into an Islamic shrine.
Eye-witnesses said over 20 Israeli soldiers moved into Jerzim Mount east of Nablus before they headed for Joseph’s Tomb.
Fierce clashes burst out shortly afterwards.
Israeli forces summoned military reinforcement on the city’s eastern outskirts near the Hawara military camp and Beit Furik checkpoint.
The assault was carried out hours before Israeli settler hordes showed up at the holy shrine and defiled it.
