Israeli troops, backed by 30 armored vehicles and jeeps, stormed the northern West Bank city of Nablus on Tuesday and detained 10 Palestinians, security sources said.

More than 30 armored vehicles marched into the city and then moved into a nearby refugee camp on the western outskirts of Nablus, where soldiers raided houses.

Witnesses said several Israeli soldiers broke into the main mosque in the refugee camp in the morning and forced prayers to take off their clothes and searched them.

Nablus has been subjected to the ongoing Israeli military operation, which began six days ago. Israeli soldiers raided houses, and detained young men, claiming they were militants and wanted by Israelis security forces.

Meanwhile, Israeli tanks continued shelling northern Gaza Strip, after Palestinian militant groups kept launching homemade rockets from the Gaza Strip at southern Israel. No injury was reported.

On Monday, a 6-year-old girl was killed and some of her family members injured as an Israeli tank shell hit their home in the northern Gaza Strip town of Beit Lahya.

Source: Xinhua