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NABLUS, (PIC)-- Violent confrontations were reported south of Nablus city on Wednesday evening between Jewish settlers and Palestinian villagers in Assaira Al-Qabalia village. Eyewitnesses told the PIC that tens of settlers tried to storm a number of homes and to set fire to those houses and nearby fields but were prevented by Palestinian citizens who rallied to defend their homes and land. They said that a big number of Israeli occupation soldiers arrived at the scene a few hours later and arrested a Palestinian. Jewish settlers on Wednesday morning threw stones at Palestinian cars along the Nablus-Ramallah road while heading to their work. Eyewitnesses told the PIC that the settlers came from the settlement of Shilo and threw stones at any car with Palestinian plates. |
Villagers block settlers from burning fields