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Titolo: Protesters barred from marching to ex-W. Bank settlement hurl rocks at Palestinian homes

Protesters barred from marching to ex-W. Bank settlement hurl rocks at
Palestinian homes
By Yuval Azoulay and Nadav Shragai, Haaretz Correspondent
Dozens of right-wing activists, barred by police from marching to the
former West Bank settlement of Homesh on Sunday, entered a nearby
Palestinian village and hurled rocks at the residents' homes.
Earlier Sunday, police forces removed hundreds of activists from a
grove close to the ruins of Homesh, one of four northern West Bank
settlements evacuated when Israel pulled out of the Gaza Strip during
the 2005 disengagement.
The residents of the West Bank village of Burkah responded to the
settlers' attack by hurling rocks back at them, as large police and
army forces arrived to calm the situation.
As the Israel Defense Forces troops were attempting to separate the
warring groups, several Palestinians detonated an explosive device,
aimed at harming the IDF troops. No one was injured in the incident.
Border Police officers forcibly evacuated several dozen of the
activists from the West Bank village.
Homesh First, a group which had organized Sunday's march as well as
previous ones, reported that six teens had been injured when Border
Policemen beat them with sticks, and that one of them had lost
consciousness. However, the Magen David Adom emergency medical
services reported that there had been no one injured during the
conflict.
An army source reported that the settlers had caused damage to two
military vehicles.
Protesters had been gathering at the site since the morning, among
them youths and families who had been evacuated from Homesh and Sa-Nur
and who were seeking to resettle the area.
Yossi Dagan of Homesh First said some 600 protesters had reached the
area, but would not advance to the settlement itself in order to avoid
confrontation with police.
The protesters had carried bricks to the area, with the intention of
rebuilding the synagogue that had been demolished during the
disengagement.
When the police arrived at the site in order to remove the activists,
some of them fled to hills further away, while the rest were put onto
buses and taken to Kfar Sava. That stage of the evacuation was
completed relatively peacefully, without any violent clashes.
Nevertheless, the hills surrounding Homesh were still occupied Sunday
evening by hundreds of youths, who Dagan said would try again to reach
the former settlement. He said that two more groups were expected
overnight, and that they would try to march to Homesh.
Thousands of people had been expected to try to make their way to the
former settlement, and hundreds spent the weekend at local
settlements.
At the end of last week, the police forcibly removed dozens of teenage
boys and adults who had managed to reach Homesh.
On Thursday, police questioned Dagan and another Homesh First leader,
Boaz Haetzni. Dagan claimed afterward "an unprecedented political
interrogation."
"It is a disgrace that in a democratic, Western country in the 21st
century, the government dares to use the police to interrogate
citizens about statements in the media," Dagan said. Haetzni made
similar comments.
Police summoned for questioning Sunday morning Limor Harmelech, the
widow of Shalom Harmelech who was murdered by terrorists several years
ago. On Friday, police arrested in another West Bank settlement
activists who had pasted up notices about Sunday's procession to
Homesh.
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