Sunday 7 March 2010

Dozens of Palestinians and activists injured in West Bank protests



PIC

[ 07/03/2010 - 10:46 AM ]

AL-KHALIL, (PIC)-- Dozens of Palestinian citizens and multinational activists were either injured or suffered tear gas suffocation during rallies took place in different West Bank villages in protest at the violations committed by Israel against the Palestinian people in general and the Islamic holy sites in particular.

In the village of Beit Ummar, the Israeli occupation forces (IOF) attacked a massive march organized by the national committee against the wall and the Palestinian solidarity project in protest at the Israeli attack on the Islamic holy shrines in occupied Jerusalem and the West Bank.

Palestinian local sources said that the IOF troops fired tear gas, flashbang grenades and rubber bullets at the participants which led to the injury of four of them. Six others fainted due to inhaling tear gas and were given instant field medical treatment.

In Irak Burin village, five Palestinians were injured and taken to Nablus hospitals while many others suffocated because of tear gas.

The IOF troops also physically assaulted a Palestinian farmer and a foreign activist during a campaign in solidarity with the farmers in the village of Job Deeb, while a large number of savage Israeli settlers from the settlement of Nikodem also stormed the nearby Palestinian agricultural lands.

In a related context, Dr. Mohamed Badi, the head of the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt, deplored on Saturday the Arab countries for their silence towards Israel’s attempts to Judaize the Islamic holy sites in Palestine.

In his weekly statement, Dr. Badi criticized the Arabs for not holding emergency meetings and conferences to discuss the serious developments regarding the Israeli attacks on the Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem and other mosques in the West Bank.

He expressed his confidence in the ability of the Muslim Nation to rebuild itself, make sacrifices and overcome malicious schemes planned against it.

For his part, Kuwaiti lawmaker Waleed Al-Tabtabaei called on the Arab Gulf states to support the Palestinian resistance, affirming that this support is the best response to Israel’s destructive schemes against the Islamic holy sites in Palestine.

In a statement published by Al-Seyassah newspaper, Tabtabaei underscored that Israel’s repeated attacks on the Aqsa Mosque and its aggressive project it intends to open in mid-March dealt a blow to the Arab-Palestinian group of defeatist policies which declared its readiness days ago to resume negotiations with Israel.

The lawmaker held Mahmoud Abbas responsible for what is happening, saying that his behavior and police coordination with Israel against the Palestinian resistance made him its close partner and accomplice in its aggressive schemes.

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