By IRNA,
Al-Khalil : Jewish settlers rampaged through Palestinian fields and neighborhoods, setting olive trees afire and trashing houses in the West Bank after Israel evicted about 200 hard-line Jewish settlers from a contested building in Al-Khalil.
It was the first serious clash in what seems to be a confrontation between Israeli regime and defiant settlers.
The operation, carried out by 600 soldiers and policemen with stealth and efficiency, took half an hour with just two dozen relatively light injuries.
As the sun descended, the area around the building looked like a war zone. Evacuees were still being dragged about, four police per person, rocks were strewn on roads, plumes of black smoke were rising from the olive groves, and hundreds of helmeted troops in riot gear confronted a crowd of furious settlers.
As Palestinians watched from rooftops and windows, some settlers shouted at the troops, calling them Nazis. A few had sewn yellow stars on their shirts, like those Jews had been obliged to wear under Hitler.
On a wall near the confrontation, Hebrew graffiti declared: “There will be a war over the House of Peace.”