[Ynet News] Efrat Weiss - Sixteen Palestinians were injured on Wednesday in clashes with Israel Defense Forces near Bat Ayin in the West Bank, where 13-year-old Shlomo Nativ was killed last week in a terror attack. Bat Ayin's rabbi, Daniel Cohen, said hundreds of residents had arrived at a nearby hill to mark the Blessing of the Sun, an event which occurs once every 28 years, after coordinating their activities with the army. At a certain stage, the worshippers heard whistles and screams from the Arab village of Khirbat Safa, several hundred meters away. "There were dozens of Arabs gathered there, shouting. The muezzin called on Arabs from nearby villages to join them." According to the rabbi, "The army arrived at the village, and then a clash erupted between the army and the Arabs....No one entered the village apart from the army."
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