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Israeli settlers set fire to Palestinian fields
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Last Edited | RP Jul 20, 2009 05:34pm |
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Author | ALI DARAGHMEH |
News Date | Monday, July 20, 2009 11:00:00 PM UTC0:0 |
Description | More than 30 Israeli settlers, some of them on horseback, set fire to fields and olive trees and stoned Palestinian cars during a rampage in the West Bank on Monday, a Palestinian official said. Two Palestinians were lightly injured.
The settlers went on the rampage near the city of Nablus in the northern West Bank to protest the Israeli army's removal of an unauthorized settlement outpost in the area.
Ghassan Daglas, a Nablus municipality official, said the riot began with 10 settlers on horseback and grew to a mob of 30 south of the city, where the settlers attacked Palestinians who passed in cars.
Hardline settlers commonly attack Palestinian property as retaliation for demolished or evacuated settlements — a tactic they call the "price tag." |
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