Illegal Israeli Settlers Attack Palestinians in Hebron School and Street, Occupation Government Demolishes Six Palestinian Apartments in Jerusalem

Illegal Israeli Settlers Attack Palestinians in Hebron School and Street, Occupation Government Demolishes Palestinian Apartments in Jerusalem

Settlers protest against reopening main road in Hebron, attack several residents

Thursday May 22, 2008 01:27 by Saed Bannoura - IMEMC & Agencies

Dozens of extremist Israeli settlers protesters on Wednesday evening against the reopening of a main road leading to the southern West Bank City of Hebron. The settlers attacked dozens of residents and vehicles, the Palestinian News Agency, WAFA, reported.

The agency added that armed settlers gathered at the Al-Fahs Junction which links between Hebron and several villages and towns in the south, and barred the residents from using the road.

The setters hurled stones and empty bottles at dozens of residents and vehicles before the army arrived at the scene and removed the settlers from the area.

The settlers were angered after the Israeli occupation army reopened the main entrance of Hebron city approximately three days ago.

The entrance was completely sealed for seven years, and the army installed a military tower and two iron gates in the area. The settlers claim that reopening the road “endangers their lives”.

A student and a teacher injured during a settlers attack on Hebron school

Thursday May 22, 2008 16:43 by Ghassan Bannoura - IMEMc News

One Palestinian student and one teacher were injured when Israeli settlers attacked a Palestinian school located in the old part of the southern West Bank city of Hebon on Thursday.

Palestinian sources said a group of settlers attacked the Ibrahimiyiah School and throw empty glass bottles and stones at the students and their teachers, medical sources said that one student and one teacher sustained light wounds. Atta Al-Fourock, the headmaster of the school told reporters that his school is attacked regularly by the Israeli settlers living illegal on then old part of Hebron city. He added that his school was founded in 1913, and host about 350 Palestinian student between the ages of 6 to 13 years old.

IOG demolishes six Palestinian apartments in occupied Jerusalem

[ 22/05/2008 - 11:12 AM ]

OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC)--

The Israeli occupation government (IOG) on Wednesday demolished six Palestinian apartments in occupied Jerusalem at the usual pretext of lack of permit, which is almost unobtainable.

Large numbers of Israeli occupation police, border guards and special forces encircled the Tor suburb in eastern Jerusalem and blocked traffic in and out of it before bulldozers of the Jewish-controlled municipality of occupied Jerusalem tore down the apartments.

The proprietor of four of those apartments Amin Al-Abassy was surprised with the measure. He recalled that his four-apartment home was built in 1996 and accommodates his wife and seven children.

He noted that two of the 400-square-meter house were still under construction. Abassy said that he received a demolition notification a year ago and have appealed since then against the decision in Israeli courts.

The landlord of the other two 170 square meters apartments, Majed Al-Salaima, said that he was also surprised with the act that was carried out without prior notice.

Salaima said that he built the two apartments one for his family and the other for his son almost two years ago and they were supposed to accommodate 14 individuals as they were still awaiting final touches.

Municipal teams in the occupied holy city delivered similar demolition notifications to owners of 22 houses in Silwan, one of the Jerusalem suburbs. Some of them have been living in those homes for almost ten years.

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