By Xinhua
Ramallah : Israeli army imposed a curfew on a small West Bank village near Qalqila since Friday night, searching for wanted activists accused of firing at an Israeli settler, security sources said on Saturday.
The Palestinian security sources said that tens of Israeli army vehicles stormed Azzon village, imposed curfew and started house-to-house search in some areas of the village.
The soldiers have arrested five suspects so far, the sources said.
Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, the military wing of Fatah movement, claimed responsibility for the shooting at the Israeli settler and said its fighters had “directly hit the settler.”
Israeli sources said the man sustained light wounds due to a Molotov cocktail bomb, denying shooting.
Meanwhile, the Israeli forces also rolled into West Bank city of Nablus early Saturday amid intensive machine-gun shootout. The troops had stationed near al-Ein refugee camp at the west of Nablus before withdrawal.