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Israeli Settler Shoots
Palestinian North of Hebron
Published today (updated) 29/12/2009 15:05
Bethlehem – Ma’an –
An illegal Israeli settler on Tuesday shot and injured a Palestinian
shepherd near the illegal Israeli settlement of Bat Ayn, north of the
Palestinian city of Hebron, a witness said.
The settlement is
built on lands that were confiscated from Palestinian villages of Al-Jaba’a,
Safa, and Surif.
Ahmad Shakarna, a taxi driver who witnessed the
shooting, told Ma’an that Nabil Ibrahim Abdul Majid, in his thirties
from Al-Jaba’a, and a Bedouin man who lives in the same village, were
herding their sheep in the fields near the village.
A settler
from Bat Ayn approached them and ordered them to leave claiming the land
belonged to the settlement, Shakarna said. When the shepherds tried to
explain that the land belongs to their village, and that the settler in
fact was the intruder, a heated argument began, he said. According to
Shakarna, the settler then took out a handgun and shot Abdul-Majid in
his the shoulder.
Shakarna added that large numbers of Israeli
troops and border police immediately arrived and took the injured
Palestinian for interrogation.
Israeli media reported a
different account, saying that the security coordinator of the
settlement claimed the Palestinians attempted to steal his weapon before
he fired gunshots into the air while they fled.
The website of
Israeli newspaper Yedioth Ahronoth reported a Palestinian shepherd was
found injured not far from the area mentioned by the security
coordinator.
Shakarna, the eyewitness said the Israeli story was
completely false.
An Israeli military spokesman said officials
were aware of an incident near the settlement but offered no immediate
comment.
Beit Ayn, which houses 3,500 settlers, has been known in
the past as a base for extremists. Three men from the settlement were
jailed in 2002 for attempting to bomb a Palestinian girls’ school in
Jerusalem and plotting attacks on other targets.
Bat Ayin’s
settlers also prohibit Palestinians from entering the settlement, even
those with Israeli IDs.
Tensions with settlers were already high
in the West Bank after several incidents of settler violence in the
Nablus area. On Monday night medics reported that settlers caused a bus
to overturn by pelting it with stones, injuring five people.
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