Zionists criminal attacks against civilians during last days at the West Bank

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International human rights workers attacked by Israeli settlers in Hebron
Sunday May 06, 2007 01:01 by IMEMC Editorial Group - International Middle East Media Center

On Saturday morning, a group of human rights workers were attacked by three Israeli settlers in the Tel Rumeida neighborhood in Hebron, in the southern part of the West Bank. The settlers threw stones at the human rights workers and hit them with a metal pipe.

A local man who tried to videotape the attack became a victim himself, when he was pelted with rocks thrown by the Israeli settlers.

According to the International Solidarity Movement, the human rights workers were walking down the street in Tel Rumeida when a group of Israeli settlers living illegally in the Palestinian town descended upon them with stones and metal pipes.

In Tel Rumeida, there is a heavy Israeli military presence put in place to protect a group of 500 illegal Israeli settlers who chose to settle in the middle of a heavily-populated Palestinian area in which nearly 200,000 Palestinians live.

Palestinians are not allowed to drive any type of cars, including buses, taxis, ambulances, and fire trucks. Israeli settler civilians are allowed to carry guns, while Palestinians are not allowed to have weapons of any kind. Palestinians are subjected to random detentions and ID checks (Israeli settlers are not). Israeli soldiers frequently invade Palestinian homes or use their roofs as outposts. The security forces in the neighborhood are Israeli only and, according to local residents, completely ignore complaints made by Palestinians.

The Tel Rumeida district has been the site of frequent and violent Israeli settler attacks against both Palestinians and internationals. Last month, Israeli settlers set fire to a Palestinian resident's car. Israeli soldiers refused to allow Palestinian fire trucks to enter Tel Rumeida to extinguish the fire.

http://www.imemc.org/article/48194


Israeli settlers attack Palestinian civilian and try to take over Palestinian land near Hebron
Sunday May 06, 2007 17:58 by Ghassan Bannoura - IMEMC & Agencies

A group of illegal Israeli settlers from Beit Yater settlement built on stolen land from Janiah village east of Hebron city in the northern part of the West Bank attacked and injured a Palestinian boy on Sunday morning.

Ibraheem Mour, 17, sustained cuts all over his body after being attacked by a group of armed settlers while working in his land located near the settlement, local sources reported.

In the mean time another group right wing Jewish extremists took over land that belong to farmers from Yatta village near Hebron city, the settlers installed tents near an Israeli army post on those confiscated lands by the army.

The farmers fear that illegal settlement post become a full established settlement which means that farmers from Yatta village will lose a massive portion of their lands.

The Israeli army took over those lands several years ago and was attacking farmers in regular bases who try to get to their lands near the military post, farmers of Yatta village stated.

http://www.imemc.org/article/48199


Settlers burn 80 Dunams of agricultural lands near Tulkarem
Sunday May 06, 2007 23:35 by Saed Bannoura - IMEMC & Agencies

Local sources in Rameen village, east of Tulkarem in the northern part of the West Bank, reported on Sunday that settlers of Ennav Israeli settlement, close to the village, burnt 80 Dunams of agricultural lands that belongs to the villagers.

The lands were planted with Olive trees and almonds, the Maan News Agency reported.

Resident Sabri Abdul-Aziz Salman told the agency that several residents saw a settlers' vehicle parking near the lands, before they stepped out and set the trees on fire.

Salman added that the burnt lands belong to a number of residents, including Awad Saleh Hamad, Sadeq Saleh Bseso, and Sami Abdul-Aziz Salman.

Israeli soldiers obstructed several Palestinian fire-fighter vehicles as they were heading to the burnt lands, especially since some vehicles had to enter Ennav settlements area in order to surround and control the fire.

http://www.imemc.org/article/48202

Palestinian worker brutally beaten by two Israeli soldiers near Bethlehem
Date: 07 / 05 / 2007 Time: 16:01

Bethlehem - Ma'an – A young Palestinian man, Iyad Jamal Al-'Anati, from Halhul village near Hebron, was brutally beaten on Sunday evening by Israeli soldiers at the Al-Nashash junction between a Palestinian road and an Israeli bypass.

Al-'Anati, aged 19, said that he was returning from his job in Bethlehem, when two Israeli soldiers stopped the car he was travelling in and ordered the driver to leave.

He said "once I was alone and the Israeli soldiers had blockaded the area, they began to attack me, beating and kicking me with their feet and rifles, until I fell to the ground, but even then they continued to beat me. They were targeting my face and head with their blows; it seemed like they wanted to do damage to this area of my body."

Al-'Anati lay on the floor in what he described as a critical condition; he said that he was bleeding for two hours, before he was allowed help.

He added that the Israeli soldiers prohibited ambulances that passed from tending to him, or transporting him to a hospital. One ambulance was sent away four times before it was permitted to help, Al-'Anati alleged. It was only allowed to transport him to hospital once his condition had deteriorated so significantly that the soldiers became aware that he might die.

Full article: http://www.maannews.net/en/index.php?opr=ShowDetails&ID=21845

By the way; did you see any of these news from your local news? Or read them from the newspapers you usually read?
 
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