About 70 Israeli civilians, some masked, entered the village of Sara southwest of Nablus and sparked riots with Palestinians in the village. IDF forces are operating in the area. According to Palestinian reports, a man around 45 years old was injured in the clashes and the settlers set fire to one of the houses in the village and damaged property. According to another report, bulldozers uprooted hundreds of trees in the village of Madama south of Nablus. The riots are taking place in the context of the terror attack in Samaria in which Major Yuval Ezra and Binyahu Melet were killed. Two terrorists who took part in the attack were arrested by the IDF in a hospital in Nablus.

