There was a demolition order on a structure in (the outpost) Esh Kodesh. Some illegal structures were evicted and it pissed them off. They responded with a Price Tag attack – cut down 20 new olive tree saplings from (the villages) Qusra or Qaryut. [At the same time] Palestinians arrived and there were major riots. Then we got a report from the Palestinian DCO (District Coordination Office) that Palestinians are holding settlers inside an abandoned house. They sent forces there, and then it turned out that though the Palestinians had hit and attacked them (the settlers) beforehand when they were on their way into the village, but now they were holding them defensively. The village elders pushed them into an abandoned house and tried to prevent youth from attacking them. And then the army and the Israeli DCO representative got them out. They arrested maybe seven adult [settlers] and seven minors. There were about 15-20 of them. They got them out and they were injured [but] the minute they got to Shvut Rahel they just fled from the car because they knew they would be arrested. The next night there was a Price Tag attack in a different area. They did a Price Tag attacks in Madma in Samaria, far away from there. It was right under everyone’s noses and it was a serious Price Tag attack – they burned cars and sprayed graffiti.

When did you get the report?In the morning. When the Palestinians got up in the morning. They went out to investigate, photographed it, documented it. That’s it, there were no settlers there anymore.