Friday 11 September 2009

Ten Palestinian citizens wounded by Israeli settlers in Yatta


Ten Palestinian citizens wounded by Israeli settlers in Yatta

[ 10/09/2009 - 03:58 PM ]

AL-KHALIL, (PIC)-- A number of savage Israeli settlers protected by Israeli occupation forces (IOF) attacked Thursday a number of Palestinian homes located near Susiya settlement, southeast of Yatta town in Al-Khalil, which led to the injury of ten citizens.

Sources in the national committee to resist the settlement reported that the settlers attacked Palestinian shelters in retaliation for the dismantling of their settlement outpost, which consisted of a caravan and a tent, in the area by IOF troops.

Palestinian citizens were injured as they tried to defend themselves and homes, the sources said.

Other settlers from Oranit settlement built on Palestinian lands in Qalqiliya reportedly set fire on Thursday morning to more than 100 olive trees in a land owned by a Palestinian citizen in the village of Azon Atma.

In Nablus, a number of settlers on Wednesday evening set fire to two Palestinian cars and hurled stones at several homes in the village of Asira, south of the city.

Palestinian local sources in the village of Orif in Nablus reported that dozens of settlers attacked at noon Wednesday Palestinian homes in the village.

They said that the settlers broke into a house under construction owned by a Palestinian citizen called Munir Al-Nouri and destroyed its interior walls.

In another context, the IOF troops on Thursday wounded a Palestinian citizen on a bypass road in the town of Yatta when they opened fire at him in an attempt to prevent him from using this road because it is used by Israeli settlers.

The IOF troops also kidnapped on the same day eight Palestinian citizens during raids on a number of West Bank areas especially in Tulkarem, Al-Khalil and Jericho.

Informed sources in the Palestine polytechnic university in Al-Khalil told the Palestinian information center (PIC) that the IOF troops kidnapped two students a few days after their release from the Palestinian Authority’s jails.

Press sources in the 1948 occupied lands reported Wednesday that the high Israeli court ordered the demolition of dozens of Palestinian homes in the villages of Yetma and Sawya, south of Nablus, at the pretext of unlicensed construction.

The sources noted that this decision was issued by the court in response to a petition filed by a Zionist settlement organization called Regavim that demanded the demolition of all Palestinian homes in the area known as “C”.

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