APAwire - APAwire CLIENTS ONLY, Nablus - 05 May 2021. Israeli soldiers carry out a security operation in Aqraba village east of the West Bank city of Nablus.
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The official Palestinian News Agency, WAFA reported that Israeli forces detained a woman in Aqraba village east of the West Bank city of Nablus.
The Israeli army sealed off the town purportedly as part of an active pursuit of the suspected perpetrators of a drive-by shooting, which left three settlers injured, at the northern West Bank junction of Zaatara, also known to Israelis as Tapuah.
Clashes broke out with the soldiers, who ransacked a number of houses, seized the recordings of their surveillance cameras and briefly held worshipers at a local mosque.
The soldiers managed to seize the vehicle, spotted outside the town, after the Palestinian villagers set it ablaze
The incident occurred amid tensions between Israel and the Palestinians in east Jerusalem, the West Bank and the Gaza Strip.
Israel seized the West Bank, East Jerusalem and Gaza Strip in the 1967 Middle East war.
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