Nablus – Ma'an – Israeli forces shot and injured a mentally disabled man in the occupied West Bank on Sunday evening during an arrest raid, Palestinian and Israeli sources said.

Madama village council member Hassan Ziyadeh told Ma'an that Israeli soldiers shot Ma'moon Amin Nassar, a 34-year-old shepherd, during a raid near Nablus in the northern West Bank.

Ziyadeh said Israeli forces also detained a second man, who he identified as 19-year-old Taher Yousef Odeh. Israeli forces left the village shortly after the detentions, he said.

The council member alleged that soldiers beat both men before taking them to an undisclosed location.

An Israeli military spokeswoman said the man, who she described as mentally unstable, was already known to security forces operating in the area of Yizhar, an Israeli settlement near Nablus.

She said soldiers used "moderate force" when he threw stones, refused orders to stop, and refused to identify himself. They first fired warning shots, she said, unaware that he was incapable of following orders or responding.

The spokeswoman said the man suffered very mild head injuries, and that soldiers offered emergency medical care before transferring him to a nearby hospital. In any case, she vowed that the army would consider the incident a lesson in the event that procedures were altered.