Two Palestinian young men suffered bullet injuries during violent clashes at dawn Tuesday with Israeli soldiers in the eastern area of Nablus city in the occupied West Bank.
The clashes broke out after soldiers stormed the city to provide protection for settlers flocking to Joseph’s Tomb for rituals.
Eyewitnesses told the Palestinian Information Center (PIC) that a large number of troops aboard military vehicles entered after midnight the eastern neighborhoods of Nablus city where many of them were deployed throughout the streets and rooftops of some homes and buildings.
Later other military vehicles were seen escorting buses carrying hundreds of Jewish settlers as they were heading for the area where the Joseph’s Tomb is located.
The eyewitnesses added that local young men rallied on the streets of Amman and al-Hisba and at the northern entrance to Balata refugee camp and embarked on blocking roads with burning tires and throwing stones and Molotov cocktails at soldiers.
Medical sources said that one young man was rushed to Rafidia hospital after he suffered a live bullet injury and another one was treated on site for rubber bullet wounds.
Earlier young men set fire to settlers’ car after they infiltrated into the same area without prior coordination with the Israeli army.
