Palestinian youth injured with fractures after being run over by a settler in Nablus

A Palestinian youth was injured on Friday morning with fractures in his feet after being run over by an Israeli settler in the city of Nablus in the northern occupied West Bank.

Local sources reported that settlers stormed the eastern area of the city with their vehicles, and one of them deliberately ran over the youth while he was passing through Oman Street, resulting in fractures in his feet, after which he was taken to the hospital.

Eyewitnesses added that two settler vehicles stormed the area in an attempt to reach the shrine of "Joseph's Tomb", noting that one of the vehicles overturned during its escape, while the settlers fled on foot outside the city.

Setters usually storm the shrine of "Joseph's Tomb" located in the eastern part of the city of Nablus, within an area under Palestinian control, under the protection of the Israeli army, to perform religious rituals.

"Joseph's Tomb" is located in the eastern part of Nablus within an area under Palestinian control, and Jews consider it a religious site since the occupation of the West Bank in 1967, while researchers and scholars indicate that the shrine is not linked to the Prophet Joseph, suggesting it is the tomb of a Muslim sheikh named Yusuf Dweikat.

Since October 8, 2023, the Israeli army and settlers in the West Bank, including East Jerusalem, have killed more than 1,100 Palestinians, injured about 11,000, in addition to arresting more than 21,000.