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The IDF said overnight into Monday that dozens of […] settlers rioted in front of a military base in the central West Bank in protest of the shooting of a 14-year-old, whose shooting is under investigation by the military to determine whether he was shot by an Israeli soldier.

According to a military source, several rioters attempted to break into the base.

"Dozens of Israeli civilians gathered at the entrance of the Binyamin Regional Brigade Headquarters. The gathering became violent and some of the civilians at the scene attacked the security forces, sprayed pepper spray at them, and vandalized military vehicles," the IDF said in its statement.

It added that it is aware of a report of one Israeli "who was injured" at the riot.

Israeli border police attempted to disperse the crowd with stun grenades, who had gathered in front of the IDF's Binyamin Brigade headquarters. The source added that dozens of settlers threw stones, spat and used pepper spray on Israeli forces.

Earlier Saturday, the IDF said it is investigating whether a 14-year-old boy who was shot in the West Bank over the weekend was injured by soldiers.

The army said that while the soldiers came under attack in the West Bank by settlers, a platoon commander was caught up in another disturbance by Jews near the settlement Kochav HaShachar, in which rocks were thrown at his vehicle. The officer said he believed the attackers were Palestinians and fired three shots into the air.

The IDF is investigating whether one of the bullets hit the 14-year-old, adding that in any case, he acted according to military procedures and open-fire instructions.

The army also said that the officer involved in the incident said dozens of Jewish rioters in about 10 vehicles passed him, hitting his vehicle while he was driving on the West Bank's Allon Road. Minutes later, when he reached the Kochav Hashahar area, masked settlers threw rocks at him.

The army said that one of the masked men told the officer, "I'll put a bullet in your head."

It added that local rescue services treated the injured 14-year-old at the scene, where it was determined that a rubber bullet had hit him. Only when he arrived at the hospital for treatment did it become clear that it was a [lethal] bullet. The army said [that] it would now examine the bullet to determine whether it was fired from the officer's weapon.

Meanwhile, an Israeli court ordered the release of three of the six detainees involved in the attack on a battalion commander and his soldiers. Still, the police requested a stay of execution on the decision. The remand of a minor was extended by 24 hours. The other two detainees will be brought to court on Monday for a hearing on extending their remands.

The incident was one of several outbreaks of rioting last Friday night by settlers across the West Bank. They followed several days of unrest in the area, beginning with riots by settlers in Kafr Malik last Wednesday, in which three Palestinians were killed by IDF gunfire. On Thursday, an outpost in the Tall Asur region (Hebrew: Baʻal Hatzor), located north of Ramallah, from which, according to the army, some of whose members later joined the rioting.

On Friday, the IDF dispatched a battalion commander and two soldiers after identifying an attempt by settlers to return to the outpost. The army said that about 70 settlers then arrived at the scene and began throwing stones at the soldiers, who tried to disperse them with riot-control equipment.

The rioters threw stones at the soldiers, assaulted and choked them, and punctured their vehicles' tires. The army said that some of the attackers also tried to run over the soldiers, in an incident that lasted about five hours. The IDF emphasized that at no point in this incident was live fire employed by troops.

The commander of Battalion 7114, which was attacked at the outpost, Lt. Col. (res.) G., said the attackers were "the same people who are documented in the arson attacks on Kafr Malik with weapons drawn." At this stage, there have been no arrests on suspicion of involvement in those disturbances.

In addition to the incidents near Kochav Hashachar and at the Baʻal Hatzor outpost, the words “revenge” were sprayed on a police station in Beit El, and other graffiti was found on an IDF vehicle. Friday afternoon, a military vehicle belonging to an air force officer was set on fire near Kochav Hashachar.

The IDF noted that there had been a 40 percent decrease in nationalist incidents in 2024 from the previous year, but the number of serious incidents increased from 54 to 83 cases in 2024.

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