NABLUS: Jewish settlers and a group of Palestinian farmers engaged in stonethrowing clashes in the northern West Bank on Thursday, a Palestinian official and the Israeli army said.
The incident took place on a road which runs between the hardline Itamar settlement and the nearby village of Aqraba that are about five kilometres (three miles) apart.
"Five farmers who herd sheep in the Jordan Valley were coming home to Aqraba on a tractor when settlers from Itamar started firing in the air," said Rashid Fahmi, head of Aqraba village council.
"They attacked them, then they started throwing rocks at each other until the army came and arrested the five Palestinians."
A military spokeswoman confirmed the arrests but said the stone-throwing clashes had broken out following a car crash on the road between the settlement and the village.
"Two Israeli citizens were hurt during the clash and were evacuated to a hospital and five Palestinians were arrested," she said.
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