Israeli forces arrest 15 Palestinians in West Bank

SANAA, July 3 (YPA) – Israeli occupation forces on Wednesday arrested a number of Palestinian citizens during raids in the occupied West Bank, in conjunction with clashes outbreak when hundreds of settlers stormed “tomb of Joseph” in Nablus.

According to a statement by the Israeli occupation army, 15 Palestinians had been arrested in the West Bank on the pretext that they were wanted by the occupation.

Palestinian source reported that two youths were shot by the occupation, and others were injured by tear gas asphyxiation during clashes with settlers who stormed the tomb of Joseph, east of Nablus.

According to the sources, several buses carrying hundreds of settlers arrived at the tomb of Joseph in the Balata area, east of Nablus, accompanied by occupation patrols, while groups of infantry troops moved from Jabal Jarizim via al-Dahiyah neighborhood.

Settlers preformed Talmudic rituals until Wednesday morning, and then withdrew towards the Beit Furik checkpoint east of the city.

The Israeli occupation forces stormed the belly of al-Hawa and Al-Tira in the city of Ramallah, and searched a number of citizens ‘ homes, in addition to storming the town of Qabatiya, southwest of Jenin.

In Hebron, an occupation force stormed the house of Dr. Khalid Mansi in the south of Yatta and the wind village. They also confiscated surveillance cameras from a shopping mall in the centre of Yatta, south of Hebron.

E.M