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Jewish settler attack injures Palestinians | Jewish settler attack injures Palestinians |
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Several Palestinian workers have been hurt in an attack by a group of Jewish settlers in the northern West Bank. | Several Palestinian workers have been hurt in an attack by a group of Jewish settlers in the northern West Bank. |
One worker suffered serious head injuries, as dozens of masked settlers threw rocks at their vehicles. | One worker suffered serious head injuries, as dozens of masked settlers threw rocks at their vehicles. |
Police say no arrests have been made following the attack near the Palestinian city of Nablus, which is circled by Israeli settlements. | Police say no arrests have been made following the attack near the Palestinian city of Nablus, which is circled by Israeli settlements. |
Friction and violence is common between Jewish settlers and Palestinians in the West Bank, captured by Israel in 1967. | Friction and violence is common between Jewish settlers and Palestinians in the West Bank, captured by Israel in 1967. |
Palestinian medics said two men were taken to hospital, one with a fractured skull, and four others were treated for minor injuries. | |
The violence happened on a road between Nablus and a nearby settlement called Kedumim, founded by Orthodox Jews in 1975 who believe the West Bank was promised to them by God. | |
The settlement movement is currently in open conflict with the Israeli government, which has adopted plans to evict small groups of hardline settlers from outposts not officially recognised. | |
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced the plans as he resisted calls from US President Barack Obama to freeze building activity in all settlements, a move correspondents say is Washington's attempt to relaunch the Israeli-Palestinian peace process. | |
Israel occupied the West Bank and East Jerusalem during the 1967 war. It has settled about half a million Jews there, in defiance of international law, amid a population of about three million Palestinians. |
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