Israeli border police clashed with hundreds of settlers Monday at the site of a West Bank outpost evacuated in 2005.

On Sunday hundreds of demonstrators were barred from reaching the former settlement, Homesh, but they infiltrated the site overnight and began building a tower and what they claimed was a synagogue.

Many settlers refused to leave when border police forces arrived, and police used water hoses to disperse them and arrested at least 10 people. Others fled to the surrounding hills and the nearby Palestinian village of Burka, where they hurled rocks at Arab homes. Palestinians responded in kind, and troops had to separate the two groups. (JTA)