The Israeli navy stated on Tuesday that a number of Israelis had been wounded in a single day as they entered the Palestinian West Bank metropolis of Nablus and got here beneath hearth.
The Israelis seem to have been heading in the direction of a flashpoint shrine within the metropolis, the place visits are often coordinated with the navy beneath tight safety precautions.
The navy stated 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 navy later stated 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 navy stated 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 wished males later exiting the home and surrendering.
The raids had been adopted by a flurry of lethal assaults in opposition to the Israelis, by which 19 individuals had been killed.
The navy says dozens of Palestinians have been killed for the reason that starting of this 12 months, lots of them militants or these concerned in conflicts with Israeli forces. But civilians have additionally been killed.
Some Jews imagine 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 positioning, identified to Jews as Joseph’s Tomb, a number of occasions a 12 months.
As Israeli-Palestinian violence flares up this 12 months, the positioning has change into 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 navy stated 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
