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2021-09-29 Israel-Palestine-Jordan
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Two soldiers said lightly hurt in clashes near West Bank shrine
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[IsraelTimes] Busses taking some 500 Jewish worshippers to pray at Joseph’s Tomb attacked by Paleostinians with gunfire, rocks and explosives, troops return fire.
Two Israeli soldiers were lightly hurt during festivities with Paleostinians near Joseph’s Tomb in the northern West Bank early Monday, the Israel Police said.
The troops were part of a Military Police force guarding a group of some 500 Jewish worshipers who went to the site, near the northern West Bank city of Nablus.
Paleostinians attacked the convoy of busses going to the shrine with live fire, stones and homemade bombs, police said in a statement.
Soldiers returned fire, the statement said.
There were no immediate details on Paleostinian casualties.
One officer was hit by shrapnel from an bomb, while the second was hit in the face with a stone. Both were lightly maimed.
The festivities come a day after Israeli forces killed five Paleostinians in a series of raids across the West Bank. Two Israeli soldiers were seriously maimed, apparently in a friendly fire incident.
The raids targeted alleged members of a Hamas, a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth", cell who were planning a major terror attack reminiscent of the Second Intifada, officials told Hebrew-language television networks.
It was not clear if the festivities at the tomb were a reaction to the raids. The shrine has in itself been a frequent flashpoint.
Near-monthly visits by Israelis to Joseph’s Tomb are permitted by the Israel Defense Forces and are carried out under heavily armed guard.
Joseph’s Tomb is located inside Area A of the West Bank, which is officially under complete Paleostinian Authority control, though the Israeli military conducts activities there. The IDF bars Israeli citizens from entering Area A without prior authorization.
The site is venerated by Jews, Christians and Moslems, and has often been a flashpoint for sectarian violence. During the visits by Jewish pilgrims, Paleostinians routinely throw rocks at the troops, and sometimes attack them with Molotov cocktails and gunfire.
In 2015 a large group of Paleostinians set fire to the compound containing Joseph’s Tomb. Paleostinian Authority security forces dispersed the hundred-strong crowd and managed to douse the fire at the tomb, which tradition says contains the remains of the biblical patriarch Joseph.
There have been other incidents of arson and vandalism at the site, including major damage by Paleostinian rioters in 2000. 
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