Katz halts settler detention orders, sparking backlash amid rising West Bank tensions.
IDF, Border Police, and other police forces dispersed the right-wing settlers and arrested five suspects.
Both Israel Katz and Yoav Gallant, the current and former defense minister, condemned the attempted attacks on Friday night.
Five settlers were arrested, and the IDF condemned the incident that saw the settlers block military activities and harass the Central Command chief.
About 50 settlers gathered to attack the IDF soldiers, injuring one soldier who was taken to hospital with head injuries.
These fundamentalist Jewish groups twist Jewish tradition into an abominable chimera, mixing biblical literalism, ethno-nationalism, and theological obsessions similar Evangelical Christians.
Britain and France have called an urgent meeting at the UNSC to discuss the humanitarian situation in Gaza and Britain is considering sanctioning ministers Ben-Gvir and Smotrich.
The US imposed sanctions on Israel's Hilltop Youth movement and two individuals for violence against Palestinians, aiming to curb escalating West Bank tensions.
Around 20 people, including masked and armed men, began chasing the fleeing women and children.
The reported attack was said to have been carried out on Palestinian civilians in Bethlehem.
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