"What happened in Hawara a few weeks ago was just an example of what can happen on a larger scale with a regular force of extremist settlers," said one Palestinian activist.
Israeli security forces watched as settlers threw stones and fired live bullets at Palestinian homes and property in Hawara, the town’s mayor said, after two Israeli soldiers were wounded in a shooting attack on Saturday.
"A settler just threw this bottle on my head and almost killed me," a Palestinian resident, holding a glass bottle in his hand, told al-Araby’s reporter who rushed to the location minutes before the US delegation.