Five Palestinians, including two photojournalists, have been injured in clashes with Israeli settlers in the northern West Bank

Five Palestinians, including two photojournalists, have been injured in clashes with Israeli settlers in the northern West Bank.

Residents of the Har Brakha settlement threw stones at houses in the nearby Palestinian village of Burin, and young Palestinians threw stones back at them on Tuesday, a Press TV correspondent said.

Israeli soldiers then intervened and fired tear gas and rubber bullets at the Palestinians.

A local photojournalist had his nose broken and another was slightly hurt.

Ghassan Daghlas, the Palestinian Authority official responsible for the settlement file in the northern West Bank, said that armed settlers from the nearby settlement Har Brakha attacked the village and attempted to take over a house in order to raise a flag on top of it.

Israeli occupation forces then attacked the village, firing live rounds and tear gas canisters at residents. Dozens were slightly injured due to inhalation of tear gas, including four journalists who were covering the attacks.