This article was originally published by Maan News and is republished with permission.

Dozens of Israeli military vehicles raided the occupied Palestinian West Bank city of Nablus on Friday evening, invading from the western entrance to the city.

Israeli radio reported that the Israeli army launched an incursion in Ein Beit el Ma refugee camp, north of the city.

The operation has been launched a day after the Israeli military authority announced that an investigation will be undertaken into reports of the Israeli army using Palestinians as human shields in the previous incursion of Nablus last month.

The Israeli human rights organisation B'T Selem has issued a report accusing the Israeli forces of using Palestinians as human shields.

Palestinian security sources informed Nablus TV that ten Israeli military vehicles, accompanied by a bulldozer, besieged the camp of Ein Beit el Ma and fierce clashes erupted between armed Palestinian men and the Israeli forces.

Eyewitnesses told Ma'an's correspondent that many Israeli military vehicles were stationed at Huwwara checkpoint, south of the Nablus, ready to enter the city. The witnesses also said that Israeli forces were stationed near Ein Beit el Ma refugee camp and seized many Palestinian cars, using them to patrol the camp.

Israeli forces also stormed a building belonging Palestinian citizen, Abu el Adas, near Ein Beit el Ma refugee camp and erected a military barrier, before searching the citizens and preventing them from reaching their houses.

The forces erected another military barrier near Tamam factory, west of Nablus.

According to eyewitnesses, the Israeli forces occupied many houses in the Ma'ajin and Ras el Ain areas of Nablus, turning them into military posts.

Witnesses added that the soldiers continued the operation and raided the Hashashin area, in Balata refugee camp. Fierce clashes erupted in the area and many houses in the refugee camp were ransacked by the Israeli forces. As yet no casualties or arrests have been reported.