(18 May 1995) English/Nat
Jewish settlers have rampaged through the occupied West Bank town of Hebron attacking Palestinian cars and vandalising property. In another West Bank town settlers staged a march to stake their rights to the area.
Violence has smoldered in the area since a settler massacred 29 Palestinian worshippers at a mosque last year.
Palestinians in the West Bank town of Hebron survey the damage wrought by rampaging Jewish settlers on Wednesday night.
At least 20 Palestinian cars were attacked. Windows were smashed and tyres slashed during the violence.
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We have seen settlers breaking the windows of the cars, and destroying the wheels and we saw the soldiers, they seen them but they didn't do anything.
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The violence was allegedly linked to the Jewish festival of Lag B'omer, which began Wednesday evening.
Hebron, the site of a mosque massacre last year in which a settler killed 29 Palestinian worshippers, is a hotbed of conflict.
In another West Bank town, Nablus, hundreds of right-wing settlers gathered Thursday to march to a religious site- the patriarch Jacob's tomb.
The march was intended to show settlers' concern over re-deployment of Israeli troops.
They shouted anti-government slogans and there were heated confrontations with the police .
Nine people were arrested during the settlers' march .
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