JERUSALEM, July 21 (UPI) -- West Bank settlers uprooted olive trees and stoned Palestinian vehicles and military jeeps to protest the removal of illegal outposts, army officials said.
Approximately 30 masked settlers from the West Bank settlement of Yitzhar wreaked havoc in an ancient olive grove in a nearby Palestinian village, uprooting some of the trees and damaging others, Maariv reported Tuesday.
The settlers' actions were in response to the dismantling of three illegal outposts the previous day by Israeli security officials, the paper said.
Israeli army and defense officials said a number of disturbances involving settlers occurred Tuesday. In one incident, a group of settlers stoned passing Palestinian vehicles, and in another attempted to set fire to Palestinian fields, the paper said. Another group of settlers threw stones at an army patrol, wounding one soldier, the report said.
In another incident, a Palestinian youth was injured by stones and taken to a local hospital. Five settlers were arrested by Israeli security forces and handed over to police for questioning, the report said
