The IDF raided an illegal West Bank outpost and confiscated equipment after Jewish rioters who set out from it entered the Palestinian town of Beit Ummar and set fire to Palestinian-owned vehicles, Army Radio reported.
Security forces also arrested two Israeli citizens suspected of involvement in the rioting and violence, and handed them over to police for questioning.
Troops seized about 10 pieces of work equipment, an excavator and an all-terrain vehicle from the outpost, known as Gefen Ami, according to the report.
The raid was part of enforcement action against illegal outposts and of what the military calls an “economic campaign to address nationalist-motivated crime.”
Shortly after the raid was reported, additional footage was shared by United Hatzalah of Judea and Samaria (SSF) of a car on fire, which SSF claimed had been ignited by Arabs from Beit Ummar who had gone to the settler farm Gafen Ami.
It is unclear if the incidents are related.
This is a developing story.
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