Shechem
Ala Raouf Shetiyya fled after carrying out a May 2024 car-ramming that killed two Israel soldiers.
Two additional security incidents were reported in the Binyamin region of southern Samaria.
The request comes as the military is studying the possibility of restoring a permanent Jewish presence at the holy site on the outskirts of Nablus.
Israeli forces also arrested suspects and seized weapons during the raid in the Kasbah of the Samarian city.
Wael Masha, 18, and another gunman who threatened troops were slain in Nablus.
An 11-vehicle convoy carrying religious Jews to the site was hit by gunfire on the way out. No injuries were reported.
Terrorists set off an IED as the Israeli forces, who were securing civilian access to the site, passed by • MK Zvi Sukkot: “Terror will not win, in the merit of Joseph the righteous.”
Palestinian gunman critically wounded in clashes with Israeli troops near Joseph’s Tomb • Israeli forces destroy explosive lab and warehouse in Balata camp.
The terrorists had fired on soldiers manning a checkpoint near the Samaritan neighborhood on Mount Gerizim.
Israeli forces neutralized the threat in time for hundreds of Israeli civilians to perform their pilgrimage to the tomb of the biblical Joseph, though troops were forced to perform riot-dispersal maneuvers to ward off additional potential attackers at the site.
Soldiers who were at the site to protect approximately 1,000 Jews who had coordinated with the army to pray at the site during the nighttime were met with firebombs and even live fire by Arabs from the city.
A vehicle accelerating towards a group of Israeli soldiers outside Shechem (Nablus) was fired upon and stopped before it could cause injuries.
