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Settlers attack Palestinians following outpost evacuation
By Anshel Pfeffer and Jack Khoury, Haaretz Correspondents
Tags: Palestinians, settlers 

Israeli settlers on horseback set fire on Monday to at least 1,500 Palestinian-owned olive trees in the West Bank as others stoned cars, a
Palestinian security official said.

The incident occurred hours after security forces razed a number of structures built in unauthorized outposts in the West Bank.
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Two Palestinian motorists were lightly wounded and five vehicles damaged near the settlement of Yitzhar, outside the Palestinian town of Nablus, said the official, Ghassan Daglas.

He said 10 settlers riding horses and carrying torches set fire to between 1,500 and 2,000 olive trees. Olives are an important cash crop for Palestinians, who have complained of frequent attacks on their groves by settlers.

The violence is part of a "price tag" policy in which settlers retaliate to the outpost removals by harassing local Palestinians.

Police accompanied by Civil Administration officials set out Monday morning to evacuate illegal structures in three unauthorized outposts in the West Bank. The forces demolished two makeshift homes in the Adei Ad outpost and then moved on to Nofei Yarden and Mitzpe Danny.

The police set out only to evacuate illegal structures that were erected in the recent past, not to evacuate the outposts themselves.

Following the evacuation, settlers blocked the main Hawara artery leading to the IDF's headquarters in the northern West Bank.

Palestinians near Nablus accused the IDF of showing too much lenience toward the settlers. They said the settlers set fire to dozens of dunams of privately-owned land and caused damage to a number of vehicles.

"The settlers are being encouraged by the Netanyahu government," said Rasan Darles, a Palestinian official. The settlers, meanwhile, accused the civil administration of "vengeful motives."

"After residents of Adei Ad filed a complaint against a civil administration official for attempted theft. After the official was questioned by police, the civil administration decided to take revenge and destroy the structure," said the Binyamin regional council in the West Bank.

"We are dealing with Civil Administration officials who display heroism against caravans belonging to Jews yet show cowardice and weakness in the knees when dealing with Arab villas and buildings that are built illegally," the Binyamin council said.

"The destruction in Nofei Yarden is also an act of revenge over the complaint that was filed to the police commissioner following the scandalous arrival to the scene of police officers together with seven Arabs a week-and-a-half ago," the settler council said. "Afterwards, there was an attempt to infiltrate the settlement. This was the direct result of the visit by Arabs on that day. As you may recall, MK Uri Ariel raised the subject in the Knesset and now the civil administration and the police are doling out their revenge."

Earlier on Monday, a Palestinian died in an Israeli hospital of gunshot wounds suffered on Sunday along the border with the Gaza Strip after he refused to stop when ordered to do so by an Israeli patrol, a hospital spokeswoman and the army said.
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  1.   Why are those people allowed to riot? 15:54  |  Mark Lincoln 20/07/09
  2.   "Ghassan Dagllas"... not Rasan Darles what a reporter 15:56  |  Indigenous 20/07/09
  3.   No wonder the Palestinians protested .. 16:02  |  un2here 20/07/09
  4.   Obviously they didn`t want anyone around... 16:03  |  Johnboy 20/07/09
  5.   Israel cannot enforce the law among the settlers 16:09  |  Natallie Durson 20/07/09
  6.   Remove all IDF Protection from Settlements 16:35  |  Tzfonit 20/07/09
  7.   .........Unjustice............ 16:42  |  Fadi 20/07/09
  8.   Wrong 16:49  |  Arnold 20/07/09
  9.   Settler thugs 16:57  |  jennifer 20/07/09
  10.   What is the difference between this and anti-semitism? 17:01  |  Historian 20/07/09
  11.   Moral bankruptcy 17:02  |  Shelley 20/07/09
  12.   Arrest and imprison them 17:09  |  Mark Jeffery Koch 20/07/09
  13.   Why do they do it? 17:13  |  Murray 20/07/09
  14.   take the settlers out 17:26  |  peter 20/07/09
  15.   On horseback? What cowboys! This behaviour helps the Palestinians 17:35  |  Mark Leaman 20/07/09
  16.   Settlers just like Hamas 17:39  |  bam-bam 20/07/09
  17.   Israel=somalia 17:40  |  steve 20/07/09
  18.   Deuteronomy Chapter 20 verse 19 17:48  |  Josh 20/07/09
  19.   If Palestinians were armed.... 17:54  |  Lou Medel 20/07/09
  20.   that`s what you get 17:56  |  rm 20/07/09
  21.   "Palestinians sources say" 17:59  |  Truth-seeker 20/07/09
  22.   Jump to conclusion 18:17  |  david 20/07/09
  23.   #16 Bam-Bam Unlike Hamas 18:29  |  Ibn Musa 20/07/09
  24.   Fairly clear 18:53  |  Colin Wright 20/07/09
  25.   Worse than that Durson: America cannot enforce law on Wall Street 18:54  |  Israeli citizen 20/07/09
  26.   Another Example of the Evil of Occupation 18:56  |  John 20/07/09
  27.   Israeli Citizen 19:45  |  jennifer 20/07/09
  28.   Collin Wright, not quite. 19:51  |  Tzfonit 20/07/09
  29.   "price tag" and the rule of law 19:51  |  bronxite10 20/07/09
  30.   No names, no sources, this article is invalid 19:55  |  a 20/07/09
  31.   Why are these settlers Not called terrorists? 20:07  |  Steve 20/07/09
  32.   For Jennifer : Madoff is their scapegoat. Wall street all= Ponzi 20:26  |  Israeli citizen 20/07/09
  33.   settlers attack Pals in revenge 20:55  |  gil62 20/07/09
  34.   Olive trees yes, Jewish homes no 21:14  |  Joe 20/07/09
  35.   Settlers attack Palestinians following outpost evacuation 21:18  |  flora 20/07/09
  36.   NATO troops needed in West Bank to Take Place of Inept IDF 22:43  |  Johan Odin 20/07/09
  37.   Historian what book are you reading? 23:04  |  petra 20/07/09
  38.   Instead of showing the little difference they show the same.. 23:37  |  Jew-and Bookburner 20/07/09
  39.   Internal problem.. 23:44  |  Hirz 20/07/09
  40.   To Joe #33 00:02  |  Barry Freed 21/07/09
  41.   What? No rubber/live bullets, no tear gas or noxious spray... 00:18  |  Maureen Ann 21/07/09
  42.   Any sources? Witnesses? names? 00:52  |  Chaim Ben Kahan 21/07/09
  43.   Truth is that olive trees are Israeli owned and burned by Arabs 00:55  |  Chaim Ben Kahan 21/07/09
  44.   RE #34 joe 01:28  |  tzedek 21/07/09
  45.   RE #16 Ibn musa 01:31  |  tzedek 21/07/09
  46.   Needs investigation first 01:42  |  RfaelMoshe 21/07/09
  47.   6 - Tzonfit: Well said 02:27  |  r cummings 21/07/09
  48.   The "price tag" policy 03:18  |  Johnboy 21/07/09
  49.   #43, Chaim Ben Kahan, and if you think we believe that... 18:44  |  Silvienne 21/07/09
  50.   #34, Joe... 18:51  |  Silvienne 21/07/09
  51.   #45, Tzonfit: good post.... 18:52  |  Silvienne 21/07/09
  52.   #45 rasha 22:09  |  Ibn Musa 21/07/09
  53.   This reminds me of 06:46  |  Adrian de Klerk 22/07/09
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