Unknown group claims attack on Israeli soldier at military base in Israel

Date: 18 / 10 / 2008 Time: 21:56
Bethlehem –

An unknown Palestinian group inside Israel calling itself Ahrar Al-Lud has claimed responsibility for the Saturday morning attack on the Israeli military camp near the city of Rishon Letzion, south east of Tel Aviv.

The attack saw an Israeli soldier guarding the base lightly injured; his rifle was also stolen.

The group e-mailed a statement to Ma’an explaining that “after monitoring the site for fifty days a group of resistance fighters invaded the post aiming to abduct a soldier from a military school inside the camp. When the operation began the fighters tried to avoid the soldier who was in guard. He noticed the fighters. So the soldier was attacked, disarmed and the mission abandoned.”

The statement added that the attack was in response to the Acre incidents following Yom Kippur that saw the homes of several Palestinian families living in Acre burned, and dozens of Palestinian-Israelis and Jewish-Israelis arrested.

Israeli sources: “Soldier beaten, his rifle snatched at a military base near Tel Aviv”

Saturday October 18, 2008 21:56 by Saed Bannoura - IMEMC & Agencies

Israeli online daily, Haaretz, reported on Saturday that an Israeli soldier was beaten by two persons who apparently infiltrated into Tzrifin military base, near Tel Aviv. The two unknown attackers also snatched the soldier's rifle and fled the scene.

The wounded soldier was moved to an Israeli hospital in the area, and a military probe was launched into the attack.

Israeli military and security sources stated that the attack appears to be criminally motivated,
The two attackers were hiding behind a rock in the base and took the soldier by surprise.

The Israeli Military Police, the Shin Bet Security Agency and the police searched the area but could not locate the assailants.

Settlers attack olive harvesters; injure 3 including journalist, international

Date: 18 / 10 / 2008 Time: 13:37
Hebron – Ma’an –

Journalist Abdel Hafiz Al-Hashlamon sustained severe bruises all over his body after being attacked by settlers of the Tal Ar-Ramida settlement in central Hebron on Saturday.

An international activist and one Palestinian were also injured.

Local sources said several Israeli and Palestinian peacemakers harvesting olives in the area were also attacked by the same group of settlers.

An eyewitness added that settlers attacked the journalist and cameraman, who had accompanied the activists while producing a story on the Palestinian olive harvest.

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