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Palestinian farmers, settlers clash near West Bank settlement of Yitzhar
By Reuters
Tags: Palestinians, Israel News 

Palestinian farmers said they were attacked by Israeli settlers while trying to pick olives near a West Bank settlement on Saturday.

The Israeli military said the settlers and Palestinian villagers clashed near the settlement of Yitzhar. The army said soldiers separated the two sides and briefly fired in the air.

Ali Eid, mayor of the nearby village of Burin near Yitzhar, says the two sides fought with sticks and stones. He says two farmers and one settler were lightly hurt.
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In recent years, there has been growing friction between farmers and settlers during the olive harvest. Palestinians complain that they frequently come under attack from militant settlers. The army says it has put together a plan to keep the peace during the harvest.

Yigal Amitai, a spokesman for the Yitzhar settlement, said settlers and soldiers caught a group of Palestinians chopping down trees in a plot aimed to make it look like settlers were in fact vandalizing trees. The army denied the settlers' version of events.

Meanwhile, the army said it arrested two Palestinian farmers who were harvesting olives near Yitzhar and attempted to infiltrate the community.

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