Violent clashes broke out on Tuesday evening between Palestinian young men and Israeli soldiers in the towns of Qusra and Madama towns south of Nablus city.
Local sources told the Palestinian Information Center (PIC) that several Israeli troops stormed Madama town chased local young men and opened fire at them.
They added that soldiers stormed many homes in the eastern neighborhoods of the town in search for young men seen rallying in an area near the illegal settlement of Yitzhar.
Later the Israeli occupation forces (IOF) closed the junction and checkpoint of Huwara south of Nablus in the West Bank following a provocative march staged by extremist Jewish settlers in the Palestinian towns of Huwara and Qusra.
Dozens of settlers also stormed Palestinian agricultural lands in an area near Yitzhar settlement and caused damage to crops.
Meanwhile skirmishes broke out at the eastern entrance to Qusra town after the IOF set up a roadblock and embarked on intercepting and searching Palestinian vehicles.
Local sources said that chief of the Qusra town municipality Abdul-Adeem Wadi suffered a rubber bullet injury in his leg during the events and was rushed to hospital for medical assistance.
