At least five Palestinians were injured today after residents of a hardline Israeli settlement attacked villages in the occupied West Bank south of Nablus.<br/><br/>The Palestinian medical sources said dozens of residents from the hardline settlement of Yitzhar went to the neighbouring village of Urif and threw stones at residents who responded in kind. <br/><br/>The army confirmed the clashes and said when soldiers arrived they were attacked by Palestinians and used anti-riot measures to disperse them. For years, there has been a wave of hate crimes by the Jewish nationalists targeting Palestinians and Arab Israelis and their property.