Three Palestinians have been wounded in a stone-throwing attack by Israeli settlers near the Homesh outpost in the northern West Bank, a Palestinian official says.
Palestinian Authority official Ghassan Daghlas, who tracks settlement activity, says in a phone call that no Palestinians were seriously injured by the stone-throwing. According to Daghlas, the Palestinians were driving their car near the entrance to Burqa, a local Palestinian town, when they were attacked.
The Israel Defense Forces says it is looking into reports of the incident. Some media reports initially indicated that one Palestinian was seriously wounded.
Tensions in the northern West Bank have risen substantially over the past few days. An attack by Palestinian gunmen near the illegal outpost of Homesh last Thursday left an Israeli man dead and two others wounded. Palestinians have since reported revenge attacks by Israeli extremists in nearby villages, including one attack that hospitalized a Palestinian man with severe head injuries.
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