Settler-Extremists Attack W. Bank Town

Palestinians allege settlers attacked village NABLUS, West Bank - More than 20 Jewish settlers attacked a Palestinian village in the West Bank on Thursday, smashing cars and windows and cutting electricity wires, Palestinian police said. Israeli police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld, however, said settlers never entered the village itself although there were scuffles between Palestinians and Israelis outside the village of Burin on the road to the nearby settlement of Yitzhar. When police and soldiers intervened, a settler snatched a soldier's gun and fired in the air before being disarmed and arrested, Rosenfeld and the military said. Palestinian policemen said dozens of houses and cars were damaged. Rosenfeld said the settlers set up a roadblock of burning tires to protest Israel's demolition of an unauthorized structure near... [read full story]