[ 02/09/2010 - 11:33 AM ]
Relaying one such incident, a villager named Jabir told the Safa news agency that large numbers of settlers raided the Buq’a agricultural town east of Al-Khalil in the evening carrying large amounts of cement, sand, wood, and water tanks gearing themselves to build illegal outposts in the mountainous region east of the village.
The land, which has an area of hundreds of acres, is owned by Abdel-Jawad Jabr, the source said.
“Citizens live in a state of fear and wish to stay in the mountains for fear of settler attacks,” Jabir said, adding that settlers are renewing attacks on the region in wake of resistance operations against them.
The move is one of a series of re-launched settlement activities in Al-Khalil which were put on hold because of the settlement freeze which will come to its term on Sept. 26.
In a separate incident, more than 50 Israeli settlers attacked Wednesday the home of Palestinian man Younis Idris near the scene of the operation that killed four settlers Tuesday evening in the Karyat Arba settlement east of Al-Khalil.
Eyewitnesses reported that Israeli settlers attacked the house with stones and empty bottles and tried to set fire to it.
A special Israeli force rushed to the scene to protect the settlers, who withdrew after terrorising the Palestinian residents of the house.
A similar attack was recorded on Wednesday afternoon by Zionist settlers on the Burqa village, north of Nablus. The unruly settlers threw stones at inhabitants and a nearby park.
Local sources reported that a young man was taken to hospital after the settlers threw rocks at him.
Six protesters arrested during Israeli suppression against rally
[ 02/09/2010 - 11:49 AM ]
OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC)-- Six demonstrators were abducted Wednesday evening when Israeli occupation forces (IOF) suppressed a protest march against Zionist groups who recently seized houses in the Silwan neighborhood of Jerusalem.
Local sources in Jerusalem said that dozens of Palestinians and international activists staged a sit-in and rally in front of the tourist center of the Israeli Elad settlement association in protest against making an “open day” for settlers in Silwan. Participants chanted anti-settlement and anti-Judaization slogans.
Israeli forces suppressed the march by firing tear gas canisters towards activists and beating them with batons, the sources said, adding that six Palestinians were arrested on the scene and taken for questioning in the Maskobeh center.
According to the Wadi Halwa information center, Elad is a settlers association that controls all tourist sites in the Wadi Halwa neighborhood of Silwan.
In other incidents, Israeli troops in Silwan raided Wednesday before dawn the house of neighborhood committee member Abdul Kareem Abu Sanina in an attempted arrest. Abu Sanina was not in the house during the act.
The troops handed the man’s family a military order stating Abu Sanina must appear at the Maskobeh investigation center 8:00 am or else arbitrary procedures would be pursued against him and his family.
Abu Sanina’s family confirmed that military forces made up of seven military vehicles suddenly surrounded the house in an attempt to arrest him.
Meanwhile, the IOF soldiers rounded up eight Palestinians in various West Bank areas at a late hour on Wednesday, Hebrew media reported on Thursday, adding that they would be interrogated by the security apparatuses.
In related developments, Israeli Radio reported that the central court in Haifa sentenced on Wednesday four Maghar and Barta residents to up to 11 years in prison after they were convicted of forming a resistance cell and planning and organizing resistance activities.
According to the station, the convicts planned operations against Israeli soldiers to take revenge for the war the army launched against Gaza late 2008.
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