Israeli settlers last night broke into Joseph’s Tomb shrine in the northern West Bank city of Nablus provoking confrontations with the local Palestinian residents, according to witnesses.
They said that after dozens of settlers, protected by soldiers, broke into the shrine located in a Nablus neighborhood, residents confronted them with stones.
Soldiers accompanying the settlers opened live fire and shot rubber-coated metal bullets and tear gas at the Palestinians injuring one with a live bullet in the belly and 13 others with rubber bullets, according to the Nablus Red Crescent emergency service. Dozens of others suffocated from inhaling tear gas.
Source: Palestinian News & Info Agency (WAFA)