Palestinians, Israelis wounded in West Bank shootings
Nablus, Palestinian Territories (AFP):
Israel has alleged that Palestinians opened fire at Jews who snuck into an occupied West Bank city to visit a shrine, wounding two of them, the Israeli army and medical sources said Tuesday.
The Israelis were headed to Joseph’s Tomb, believed to be the last resting place of the biblical patriarch Joseph, a flashpoint for violence in the West Bank, and revered as a holy site.
The Israeli army secures monthly pilgrimages to the tomb, but prohibits civilians entering on their own.
In an incident which the military said was unrelated to the shrine shooting, clashes erupted east of Nablus on Tuesday morning as Israeli security forces raided a house.
“Soldiers used means including shoulder-fired missiles at the building where the two wanted men were barricaded,” the military said in a statement.
Heavy gunfire rang out around homes in the village of Rujib, an AFP correspondent said.
The Palestinian Red Crescent Society said its medics treated four people for gunshot wounds.
The Israeli army said it seized weapons and detained two people in the raid who were suspected of carrying out a shooting in the West Bank.
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