Israeli occupation forces invade Bethlehem and Jenin, illegal Israeli settlers assault Palestinians and foreign workers in Hebron

Israeli settlers assault Palestinians and foreign workers in Hebron

Tuesday August 26, 2008 11:43 by IMEMC Staff

A group of illegal Israeli settlers, some of them armed, harassed Palestinian civilians in the West Bank city of Hebron on Tuesday morning, local sources reported.

Eye witnesses said that a group of illegal Israeli settlers from Kiryat Arba' illegal settlement in Hebron, and settlers in the occupied Al-Jabiri building, attacked houses and threw stones and glass bottles at houses and at civilians and school children passing in the of Al-Nsasara neighborhood and Al-Ja'abari neighborhood.

Three houses were identified to belong to, Shadi, Jalal and Salah Al-Ja'abari, were attacked by the settlers.

The Palestinian news Agency WAFA reported that settlers also assaulted members of Temporary International Presence in Hebron (TIPH), as they were called to document the settlers assault.

The TIPH is is an international unarmed force, present in Hebron after the Wye River memo of understanding between the Palestinian Authority and Israel of 1997, and is observing human rights violations by the Israeli settlers and soldiers in Hebron.

Most of the settler attacks go unreported or documented a number of settler assaults against Palestinians have been documented on tape especially in Hebron.

The Israeli human rights organization B'Tselem distributed cameras to Palestinians in hot areas to document army and settler abuses of human rights when they happen.

Few months ago, one of these cameras caught Israeli Jewish settlers from the illegal Ma'on settlement in the south-Hebron hills on tape, beating Palestinian farmers from Tuwani village with baseball bats.

Israeli occupation forces invade Bethlehem and Jenin

Tuesday August 26, 2008 11:25 by Rula Shahwan - IMEMC News

The Israeli occupation army troops invaded the West Bank cities of Bethlehem and Jenin on Tuesday morning, local sources reported.

A number of Israeli occupation soldiers accompanied by at least 12 military vehicles invaded the West bank city of Jenin, the sources said. Israeli soldiers harassed villagers by lobbing concussion grenades and shooting arbitrarily. Moreover troops searched a farmland causing damage to storage shacks. Troops also setup road blocks at the entrances of the nearby villages.

The reason behind this invasion remains undeclared and no one was taken prisoner. In the West Bank city of Bethlehem, Israeli soldiers invaded the nearby Dehaisha refugee camp. Soldiers positioned in several neighborhoods and ransacked the home of Ahmed Tabah. Later on troops withdrew and no one was taken prisoner.

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