Masked Israeli settlers attacked Palestinians and set fire to property in a pair of villages in the occupied West Bank on Tuesday before clashing with Israeli soldiers sent to break up their rampage, the Israeli military and Palestinian officials said.

“Four Palestinians were injured and evacuated for medical treatment,” the Israel Defense Forces said in a statement Tuesday. Security forces used “riot dispersal means” to break up the mob in the Beit Lid and Deir Sharaf villages “and apprehended several Israeli citizens,” the statement added.

After the masked individuals fled and regrouped close by near the Baron Industrial Zone, the IDF said civilians “attacked IDF soldiers who were operating in the area and caused damage to a military vehicle.”

The Palestinian Red Crescent said it tr

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