Houses bulldozed in West Bank settler riots

Israeli forces with bulldozers and pile-drivers tore down nine houses in an illegal West Bank settlement outpost yesterday after hours of bloody clashes between settlers and their extremist reinforcements against police and soldiers left more than 200 injured on both sides.

Police charged in on horseback yesterday, flailing hundreds of settlers with clubs, storming the barricaded and fortified houses, battling rioters in a daylong clash at Amona, next to the veteran settlement of Ofra, north of Jerusalem.