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Two Israeli police injured in clash with settlers
AFP - 28 minutes ago
JERUSALEM (AFP) - - Two Israeli border police were slightly injured near the occupied West Bank town of Hebron when a group of teenage Jewish settlers hurled rocks at them, a police spokesman said Sunday.
"Last night the settlers cynically sent minors to attack our forces deployed near Hebron, and two border guards were injured by stones," border police spokesman Moshe Pinchi told AFP.
A representative from the local settler council said police had sparked the fighting by beating a 10-year-old settler child.
"The child wanted to cross a roadblock... Those who strike our children have to know that we won't turn the other cheek," Itamar Ben Gvir told public radio.
The police said they had no knowledge of such an incident.
The latest fighting comes amid an escalation of settler violence against both Israeli forces patrolling the occupied territory and Palestinian civilians living near the settlements.
Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and other senior officials have condemned the violence and the government was expected to discuss the subject at Sunday's weekly cabinet meeting.
Around 100 settlers clashed with Israeli security forces on Friday after police removed an illegal structure erected by the settlers on a settlement outpost near Hebron. Three of the settlers were arrested.
The settlers also pelted a group of Palestinian journalists with stones, injuring an AFP photographer.
A few days earlier Hebron settlers had rampaged through a Palestinian neighbourhood after police removed another outpost, slashing car tyres, throwing rocks at homes, and desecrating Muslim graves.
Hardline settlers say they have adopted a "price tag" policy that consists of retaliating with attacks on Palestinians or security forces every time an outpost is demolished.
About 100 wildcat outposts dot the West Bank, some consisting of just a few trailers and others of several mobile homes connected to the power grid. They are usually built as extensions to established settlements.
The international community regards all West Bank settlements as illegal and the Palestinians say continued settlement construction is a major obstacle in the US-backed Middle East peace process.
More than 260,000 Israelis are estimated to live in government-authorised settlements across the West Bank, with another 200,000 in settlements in annexed east Jerusalem, which the Palestinians have demanded as their capital.
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A picture courtesy from Reuters shows AFP's Palestinian photographer Hazem Bader (R) holding his bleeding head after he was hit by a stone hurled at journalists by Israeli settlers in the West Bank city of Hebron.
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