DHAKA: Palestine President Mahmoud Abbas ordered security forces to prevent any revenge attacks or mass confrontations against Israel.

Arab newspaper Rai al-Youm says, reports The Jerusalem Post on Sunday.

According to the report, the Palestine security forces were instructed to prevent anti-Israeli action in order not to lose the political advantage they claim, following the attack in the village of Duma that killed baby Ali Dawabsha.

Abbas’s announcement comes on the coat tails of a an increase in tensions and a series of clashes between Palestinian rioters and the IDF that are a direct response to the terror attack in the Duma village of the West Bank last week.

West Bank settlers clashed with Palestinians and left-wing activists near the settlement outpost of Esh Kodesh and the Palestinian village of Kusra on Saturday morning. IDF forces came to the scene to break up the fight.

The two groups threw stones at each other and when the IDF soldiers arrived, rioters pelted them with stones as well, the IDF said.

There were approximately 15 settlers and 40 activists involved in the skirmish, Israel Radio reported.

According to the report, the issue of ownership rights to land is the point of friction that led to the fight on Saturday.

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