Israeli forces clash with youth near Hebron

Israeli forces clashed with local youth in Yatta on Friday night, after conducting searches of homes in the southern West Bank town, locals told Ma'an. Young men pelted soldiers with stones, and forces fired back rubber-coated bullets and stun grenades, as well as shooting in the air, eyewitnesses said. No injuries were reported. Soldiers had raided the homes of Burhan Ishaq Shreitih and Ratib Salim Mughnim in the Hebron-district town, locals said. An Israeli army spokesman said the soldiers entered Yatta for "routine activity ... where they encountered rock hurling by residents and responded with riot dispersal means."