Settlers, Palestinians wounded in West Bank clashes

Ten Palestinians and a Jewish settler were wounded on Monday during clashes in a village near the northern West Bank city of Nablus, a Palestinian official and witnesses said.Ghassan Daghlas, an official in charge of tracking settler activity, said six Palestinians were taken to hospital and another four were on the way after being caught up in clashes with settlers in Qusra, some 10 kilometres (six miles) southeast of Nablus.

Three Palestinians were hurt by rocks on Thursday after being attacked by Jewish settlers while working their land in the northern West Bank, local witnesses said.The clashes broke out on land near Qusra village which lies some 10 kilometres (six miles) southeast of Nablus.Witnesses said the settlers set alight to a Palestinian car, prompting an angry exchange of stone throwing between the two sides during which three Palestinians were injured.

Three Palestinians were wounded by Israeli settlers on Monday near the West Bank town of Hebron, witnesses and Palestinian security and medical services said.Mahmud Ibrahim Awad, 32, was attacked by three Israelis near Mahon settlement as he rode by on a donkey, suffering stab wounds mainly to his chest and hands.He was taken to hospital in Hebron and operated on, according to the same sources.Another settler fired on Palestinians attending a funeral from a road overlooking a cemetery at Beit Omar, hitting one man in the chest and another in a leg.

Israeli troops fired on stone-throwing Palestinians on Wednesday, wounding two, while two soldiers were also hurt in the West Bank clashes, the army and Palestinians said.The rare use of live fire on protesters in the West Bank occurred after clashes broke out in the village of Deir Qaddis, northwest of Ramallah, where Palestinians were protesting against settlers encroaching on village land.The army said troops opened fire with live rounds after one of the soldiers was attacked.

A Palestinian was shot dead by an Israeli guard in east Jerusalem on Wednesday during clashes between Israeli settlers and Palestinians, police and witnesses said.Another two Palestinians were wounded as the guard, whose job was "to protect Jewish residents," opened fire against Palestinians who were hurling rocks at his car, said police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld.The incident took place in the volatile Silwan neighbourhood where Palestinians and Jewish settlers threw rocks at each other.

Vandals tried to set fire to a mosque in the northern West Bank, causing damage to the inside, Palestinian security sources said on Tuesday, blaming Jewish settlers.The attackers set fire to a number of tyres inside the mosque in al-Mughayyir village, some 20 kilometres (12 miles) northeast of Ramallah, which damaged prayer mats inside the building.They also spray-painted "Alei Ayin" on the walls, which is the name of a nearby settlement outpost demolished by Israeli police last week, sparking fierce clashes with the settlers.

Israeli troops shot dead a young Palestinian on Saturday as he ran toward a checkpoint in the West Bank shouting Islamic slogans, Palestinian and Israeli officials said.Meanwhile, a mortar round fired from Gaza wounded two foreign workers in southern Israeli, one of them seriously, an Israeli military spokesman said.Palestinian witnesses told AFP that Khaldun Samudi, 23, was hit by several bullets as he was running toward an Israeli checkpoint east of Nablus shouting "Allahu Akbar" (God is greatest).

Two cars were torched in the northern West Bank on Friday in what Palestinian security services say is the latest of several attacks by Israeli settlers in the occupied territory.The words "price tag" were scrawled in Hebrew on a nearby wall, a reference to hardline settlers' policy to punish Palestinians whenever the Israeli government threatens to curb Jewish settlement activity.The Israeli army confirmed that attackers burned two cars in the Palestinian village of Jinsafut, which is located near several settlements.