HEBRON, Wednesday, March 06, 2019 (WAFA) – Two Palestinians were injured early Wednesday from Israeli gunfire as scores of Israeli settlers forced their way into Nabi Yunis Mosque in the southern West Bank town of Halhul, north of Hebron.
Security sources confirmed that Israeli forces escorted a convoy of buses packed with scores of Jewish settlers into the site, located in the Palestinian-controlled Area A, sparking confrontations with Palestinian residents.
Soldiers opened fire towards Palestinians protestors, injuring two protestors with rubber-coated steel bullets, including a serious injury, and causing dozens others to suffocate from tear gas.
Considered the highest inhabited place in Palestine, Halhul extends over a mountainous area north of Hebron mountains at an elevation of 916 meters above the sea level.
Muslim tradition holds that Nabi Yunis (Prophet Jonah) is buried in this town, and the Nabi Yunis Mosque was built by al-Malik Mu’addam ‘Isa bin al-Malik al-‘Adil al-Ayyubi over the burial site in 1226.
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