The Israeli army announced on Thursday that an IDF officer and three soldiers were wounded by an explosive device that was set off against a military convoy protecting Jewish worshippers going to Joseph's Tomb, near the West Bank city of Nablus.
The military spokesman said that the convoy was brought in to secure the entrance of 1,500 settlers to Joseph's Tomb.
Among the worshippers was extremist Israeli lawmaker Zvi Succot.
Beilinson Hospital in the central Israel city of Petah Tikva reported that one of the soldiers was moderately wounded, while the others were lightly wounded.
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Israeli officer, three soldiers injured by explosive device near Joseph's Tomb