Colonists blamed for car fire

Occupied Jerusalem: Palestinians said colonists set fire to a car near the northern city of Nablus in the West Bank yesterday. Gassan Daghlas, in charge of monitoring colonist activity in the northern West Bank for the Palestinian Authority, told AFP that "[colonists] from Yitzhar torched a car early on Thursday morning in Einabbus village south of Nablus." "They fled the scene when the villagers spotted them," he added.

Meanwhile, Israeli forces demolished four structures in the Oz Zion and Ramat Migron colony outposts in the West Bank early yesterday, prompting clashes that saw six people arrested, Israeli officials said.

"A temporary structure and water tower were demolished in Ramat Migron," civil administration spokesman Amir Koren told AFP. "The site was abandoned."