Several Palestinians Wednesday overnight sustained injuries from Israeli military gunfire as Israeli forces stormed Joseph’s Tomb in Nablus city, according to local sources.

They said that Israeli forces escorted a convoy of buses packed with hundreds of fanatic Jewish settlers into the site, located in the Palestinian-controlled area, sparking confrontations with Palestinian residents.

The soldiers opened fire on Palestinians protesting the raid and attempting to block settlers’ access to the site, injuring several protestors with rubber-coated steel bullets and causing others to suffocate from tear gas.

They occupied the rooftops of several houses in the Amman Street, east of the northern West Bank city, to secure the settler intrusion into the site.

Settlers repeatedly break into Joseph’s Tomb, located in a densely Palestinian populated area in Nablus, provoking chaos and confrontation with local residents.