The Israeli army mentioned on Tuesday that a number of Israelis had been wounded in a single day after they entered the Palestinian West Bank metropolis of Nablus and got here beneath hearth.
The Israelis seem to have been heading in direction of a flashpoint shrine within the metropolis, the place visits are often coordinated with the army beneath tight safety precautions.
The army mentioned that after coming beneath hearth, troopers entered town, which is beneath the jurisdiction of the Palestinian Authority and its safety forces, to evacuate the Israelis.
Israelis are banned from coming into Palestinian-controlled areas, though some nonetheless do.
The military later mentioned that the military was firing with armed Palestinians within the metropolis. It was not instantly clear whether or not the occasions had been linked.
Israel has been conducting raids nearly each day within the occupied West Bank since March, elevating tensions within the area.
The army mentioned it arrested 12 Palestinians throughout a raid on the West Bank on Tuesday, together with two individuals who carried out a capturing final week.
He was arrested after a gunfight with Israeli troopers within the northern West Bank village of Rujib, close to Nablus.
Video footage confirmed an explosion rocking a constructing in Rujib, adopted by heavy gunfire, and the 2 needed males later exiting the home and surrendering.
The raids had been adopted by a flurry of lethal assaults towards the Israelis, during which 19 folks had been killed.
The army says dozens of Palestinians have been killed because the starting of this yr, a lot of them militants or these concerned in conflicts with Israeli forces. But civilians have additionally been killed.
Some Jews consider that the biblical Joseph is buried within the tomb of Nablus, whereas Muslims say {that a} sheikh is buried there.
In coordination with the Palestinian safety forces, the military strikes Jewish worshipers to the location, recognized to Jews as Joseph’s Tomb, a number of instances a yr.
As Israeli-Palestinian violence flares up this yr, the location has turn out to be a flashpoint once more.
In April, about 100 Palestinians marched to Joseph’s mausoleum and set it on hearth earlier than being dispersed by Palestinian safety forces.
Images on social media confirmed elements of the tomb contained in the temple being vandalized and burnt.
Earlier this month, the Israeli army mentioned forces carrying Jewish worshipers to the shrine had been fired upon after which shot.
An 18-year-old Palestinian man was killed within the violence.
With inputs from TheIndianEXPRESS
