Dozens of Palestinians hurt in confrontations with Israeli forces in northern West Bank
Dozens of Palestinians have been injured after Israeli police stormed the northern part of West Bank, amid renewed tensions over the Israeli military's killing of three young Palestinians across the occupied territories.
Local sources, speaking on condition of anonymity, said clashes broke out between Palestinians and Israeli troops after settlers stormed Joseph’s Tomb on the outskirts of the occupied West Bank city of Nablus, desecrating the site venerated by Jews, Christians and Muslims.
Hundreds of settlers arrived at the site on board a number of buses on Tuesday evening, and broke into the tomb amid protection by Israeli troopers.
Violence erupted when Palestinians engaged in clashes with Israeli troopers, who fired rubber-coated steel bullets, stun grenades and tear gas canisters to disperse the protesting crowd.
A number of Palestinians were struck with rubber bullets. Several others suffered chest tightness, coughing and a choking sensation, as they had been exposed to tear gas fired by Israeli forces.
On Tuesday, Israeli forces shot three Palestinians dead, including a teenager, in separate incidents in the occupied West Bank and in the Naqab (Negev) desert.
The Palestinian Health Ministry said 17-year-old Nader Rayan died after being shot in the head, chest and hand in an Israeli raid on Balata refugee camp in Nablus.
The second death came in the Qalandiya refugee camp on the northern outskirts of al-Quds.
Alaa Shaham, in his twenties, was killed by a bullet to the head, the ministry said. Six other Palestinians were wounded by live fire.
In the town of Rahat inside the Naqab desert, an undercover Israeli unit posing as Palestinians killed 27-year-old and father of three Sanad Salem al-Harbed.
The Arab League has called on international bodies, especially the UN Security Council, to assume their responsibilities and implement resolutions concerning protection of Palestinian people.
It stressed that the Israeli regime continues to commit extrajudicial executions and premeditated killings of Palestinians, and completely disregards their most basic human, legal and international rights, as some 20 Palestinian youths and children have been killed since the beginning of the current year.
The Arab League also condemned Israeli settlements expansion activities, house demolitions, displacement and arrests of Palestinians’, stating that such practices are classified as war crimes and crimes against humanity.
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