Palestinian paramedics carry a wounded man after he was shot by Jewish settlers during clashes in the village of Aseera Alqibliankyah near the West Bank city of Nablus on Sept. 13, 2008. Dozens of Israeli settlers clashed with residents of a Palestinian village in the occupied West Bank after a Palestinian stabbed a boy in a nearby Jewish settlement. Hundreds of Jewish settlers are engaged in violence against Palestinians and Israeli soldiers who get in their way, Israel's top general in the occupied West Bank said in remarks published on Thursday. "In the past, only a few dozen individuals took part in such activity but today that number has grown into the hundreds. That's a very significant change," Maj.-Gen. Gadi Shamni said in an interview with the Haaretz newspaper. "These hundreds are engaged in conspiratorial actions...
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