A demonstrator takes part as Palestinians hurl stones at Israeli forces during clashes following the death of senior Palestinian militant Nasser Abu Hmaid, who was jailed by Israel and died in an Israeli hospital where he has been moved to after his health conditions deteriorated, near Ramallah in the Israeli-occupied West Bank December 20, 2022. REUTERS/Mohamad Torokman
Ahmad Atef Daraghmeh, 23, was shot dead by the Israeli army during a raid on the city of Nablus,” the official Palestinian news agency Wafa reported.
According to the agency, Daraghmeh was a football player on the Thaqafi Tulkarm team originally from the city of Tubas.
Eyewitnesses told Anadolu Agency that a large group of Israeli military forces stormed the site known as Joseph’s Tomb, east of Nablus, to secure settlers’ access to perform Talmudic prayers.
Clashes broke out between dozens of Palestinians and the Israeli army, eyewitnesses added.
The religious site, which Jews call Joseph’s Tomb, has long been a flashpoint for violence.
Jews say the site is the burial place of the biblical patriarch Joseph. Muslims, however, challenge this assertion, saying an Islamic cleric – Sheikh Yussef Dawiqat – was buried at the site two centuries ago.
