Jewish rioters attack IDF soldiers in West Bank, at least six arrested
The source said that IDF soldiers were beaten and even choked by the rioters, with several soldiers and an officer lightly wounded by the end of the incident.
Six Jewish rioters were arrested after attacking IDF soldiers at Kafr Malik near Ramallah between Friday night and Saturday morning.
The Israeli civilians drove toward a closed military zone, and soldiers were sent to disperse the gathering, the military said.
A source cited by KAN said that IDF soldiers were beaten and even choked by the rioters, with several soldiers and an officer lightly wounded by the end of the incident.
The soldiers who were attacked were reservists in their third round of reserve duty, the military said.
The rioters were reportedly masked and threw stones at the soldiers. Border Police was also called to the scene, with one officer nearly being run over, KAN reported. Police fired warning shots to disperse the rioters. The rioters had also verbally assaulted Israeli forces, the IDF said, as well as vandalizing and damaging the vehicles of the security forces.
They also attempted to set fire to a structure used by police and spray-painted the word “Revenge” in Hebrew on it, Army Radio reported.
“Under the cover of Shabbat, the IDF is blatantly lying and slandering the settlers,” one of their representatives said, according to Maariv. “This was an event involving a battalion commander who lost control and fired live ammunition during the evacuation of an outpost on Friday night without any justification. The events are documented and are 180 degrees different from how they were reported.”
Not the first clashes against Jewish West Bank residents outside Ramallah
The incident that started on Friday night occurred days after a separate incident on Wednesday, also outside Ramallah, in which three Palestinians were killed, several others were wounded, and an IDF soldier was lightly wounded in clashes with Jewish West Bank residents.
Approximately 30 Jews entered the village of Maghayer Al-Dir and set fire to Palestinian-owned buildings and vehicles. Vandalism was also reportedly committed, with spray-painted graffiti on walls in the area.
Five Israelis were arrested during the incident and transferred to Israel Police custody, but were released the next day.
Wednesday’s incident saw an exchange of stone throwing between Jewish rioters and Palestinians in the village. The three Palestinians were killed by Border Police intervening who fired on the Arab residents, Palestinian state-run WAFA reported, adding that seven others were wounded.
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