Hamas, Islamic Jihad: Call on PA to Free Resistance after Settlers’ Attack

At least 16 Palestinians were hurt, one of them seriously during clashes between dozens of settlers and Palestinians in a nearby occupied West Bank village near the settlement of Bat Ayin. One Israeli settler was wounded. The violence erupted when a group of Israeli settlers began throwing stones at Palestinians on the outskirts of the village of Safa. The Palestinians said that the settlers entered their village shooting in the air and damaging their property. Israeli occupation soldiers arrived at the scene in order to break up the clash. However, the Palestinians said that the soldiers did not prevent the settlers from firing their weapons.