Settlers at the Mitzpeh Yitzhar outpost set fire to nearby Palestinian fields in an attempt to disrupt the evacuation of the outpost. Thursday’s army operation was the first in which Israel removed an inhabited outpost. Scuffles between settlers and soldiers erupted despite calls by the settlement umbrella organization, the Yesha Council, for settlers to use only non-violent means in resisting the operation.
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