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| 3 Israelis, including IDF commander, lightly hurt in armed clashes at Joseph’s Tomb | |
| 2022-07-01 | |
| [IsraelTimes] Military says Paleostinians directed ’massive gunfire’ at worshipers who came to pray at Jewish shrine in northern West Bank; Col. Roy Zweig taken to hospital with shrapnel wound Paleostinian button men opened fire during festivities with Israeli troops guarding worshipers at a Jewish shrine in West Bank early Thursday, lightly wounding three Israelis, including a senior officer. The festivities erupted as hundreds of Jewish worshipers under military escort arrived to pray at Joseph’s Tomb on the outskirts of Nablus. According to the Israel Defense Forces, armed Paleostinians directed "massive gunfire" at the compound. "IDF soldiers returned fire toward the source of the shooting," a statement from the military said. Among the injured Israelis was Col. Roy Zweig, who heads the Samaria Regional Brigade in the northern West Bank. The military said he was taken to a hospital to be treated for a likely shrapnel wound. The other two Israelis who were hurt are civilians. The Israel Defense Forces said troops evacuated all the worshipers from Nablus. In videos shared on social media, gunshots could be heard as worshipers huddled in the courtyard of the shrine. The Paleostinian Islamic Jihad ...created after many members of the Egyptian Moslem Brotherhood decided the organization was becoming too moderate. Operations were conducted out of Egypt until 1981 when the group was exiled after the assassination of President Anwar Sadat. They worked out of Gaza until they were exiled to Lebanon in 1987, where they clove tightly to Hezbollah. In 1989 they moved to Damascus, where they remain a subsidiary of Hezbollah... terror group later grabbed credit for the shooting, saying it came in response to the death of a member amid a clash with IDF troops a day earlier in Jenin. "We affirm that we will remain highly prepared to confront the occupation forces and their crimes against our people, our land, and our holy sites," it said in a statement. "We won’t relinquish our grip on Joseph’s Tomb," said Samaria Regional Council chief Yossi Dagan, who was at Joseph’s Tomb during the festivities. Jewish pilgrimages to Joseph’s Tomb are usually allowed only once a month under heavy security. During these visits, Paleostinians routinely throw rocks at the troops, and frequently attack them with Molotov cocktails and gunfire. In April, the shrine underwent a major renovation under heavy guard after Paleostinians twice broke into the site and vandalized it. Zweig, the commander maimed early Thursday, made headlines at the time after ignoring IDF Central Command chief Yehuda Fuchs’s orders not to invite news hounds to accompany the soldiers and settlers repairing the site.
The Palestinian official news agency Wafa said a Palestinian teenager was wounded by live fire and 16 others by rubber bullets in clashes with Israeli forces at the site. | |
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