Palestinians, Israeli forces clash near West Bank outpost

TEL AVIV, Israel — Israeli forces clashed with Palestinians successful the West Bank successful an country that has seen a caller uptick successful friction, the Israeli subject and Palestinian medics said.

The clashes precocious Saturday were portion of days of hostility successful the country surrounding a West Bank colony outpost and a spike successful unit elsewhere successful the West Bank and eastbound Jerusalem.

During the clashes, the subject said, hundreds of Palestinians threw rocks and burned tires and shots were fired successful the area. The subject said forces responded with unrecorded occurrence and “riot dispersal means,” typically teardrop state and stun grenades.

The subject besides said shots were fired from a passing conveyance toward a subject station adjacent the West Bank metropolis of Nablus, which is southbound of Homesh. It was not wide if the shooting was related to the clashes.

The Palestinian Red Crescent said 10 radical were wounded by unrecorded fire. The Palestinian Health Ministry said 1 of them, a 17-year-old, was earnestly wounded. Dozens of others were wounded by rubber bullets.

A worker was lightly wounded, the subject said.

Homesh, successful the bluish West Bank, was dismantled arsenic portion of Israel’s withdrawal from the Gaza Strip successful 2005. But successful caller years, Israeli settlers person returned to commune and established an unauthorized outpost astatine the site.

Last week, astatine slightest 1 Palestinian gunman opened occurrence connected a car filled with Jewish seminary students adjacent to the outpost. Yehuda Dimentman, 25, was killed and 2 others were wounded adjacent Homesh, which is considered amerciable by the Israeli government.

On Thursday, thousands of Jewish nationalists marched to Homesh to people the extremity of the mourning play for Dimentman and connected Friday, Israeli forces dismantled structures that settlers had erected astatine the outpost.

According to Israeli media reports, Jewish settlers were expected to march again to the outpost connected Saturday night, drafting calls connected Palestinian societal media for adjacent villagers to beryllium connected alert.

The clashes travel amid an summation successful Israeli-Palestinian unit elsewhere successful the West Bank and successful eastbound Jerusalem. Earlier this month, an ultra-Orthodox Jew was near earnestly injured aft being stabbed by a Palestinian attacker extracurricular the walls of Jerusalem’s Old City. A week before, a Hamas militant opened occurrence successful the Old City, sidesplitting an Israeli man. Both attackers were killed by Israeli forces.

Settler unit against Palestinians has seen a akin summation during the olive harvest. In mid-November, Jewish settlers attacked a radical of Palestinian farmers with capsicum spray and clubs successful the farmland surrounding Homesh, injuring 4 people.

Israel captured eastbound Jerusalem and the West Bank successful the 1967 Mideast war, and the territories are present location to implicit 700,000 Israel settlers. Most of the planetary assemblage considers Israeli settlements amerciable obstacles to peace.

The Palestinians question eastbound Jerusalem and the West Bank arsenic parts of a aboriginal autarkic state.