The IDF on Monday said that a Palestinian woman threw an acidic substance in the face of an soldier guarding the Hawara checkpoint outside Nablus. The soldier was hospitalized with light to moderate wounds. A Palestinian doctor said that soldiers shot and wounded three bystanders in the confusion that ensued. The woman who attacked the soldier was responsible for a similar attack on September 10, the army said. She escaped at that attack, but was arrested Monday. Dr. Anan Abd el-Haq of Rafidiya Hospital in Nablus said soldiers wounded three bystanders with gunfire and shrapnel immediately after the incident. The military said, however, that soldiers fired only shots in the air to keep the crowd at bay.