Five students at the Od Yosef Hai yeshiva in the Samarian Jewish community of Yitzhar, who were arrested in a Monday evening raid on the school, have been released on bail after being questioned on suspicion of involvement in a confrontation with Arabs in an incident last week, after residents from the nearby Palestinian Authority village of Madama uprooted olive trees in the orchard of one of the residents, and plowed nearby Yitzhar land that had not been plowed in the past. The Honenu legal organization stresses that no Arabs were arrested on suspicion of uprooting the trees that led to the incident.

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