Illegal Israeli Settlers Attack Dozens of Protestors in Hebron,

Assualt Palestinian Arab Students In Safad

Settlers Attack Dozens of Protestors, Spray Them With Wastewater

Sunday October 24, 2010 00:52 by Saed Bannoura - IMEMC & Agencies

A group of fundamentalist illegal Israeli Jewish settlers attacked on Saturday a group of nonviolent protestors who demanded Israel to reopen the Al-Shuhada Street, in the southern West Bank city of Hebron. The settlers hurled stones at the protestors and sprayed them with waste-water.

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The Youth Coalition Against settlements organizes weekly protests against the occupation and settlements while dozens of Israeli and international peace activists also participate in these protests.

On Saturday, the protestors, accompanied by delegates of a French solidarity group that includes mayors and officials, held their nonviolent protest and carried signs in English, French, Arabic and Hebrew, calling on Israel to open the Al Shuhada street and to remove the settlers.

They also demanded freedom of movement to all resident especially since Israel designates certain areas in Hebron as “Jewish only”.

As the protestors marched in the Old City of Hebron, settlers of the Avraham Avino illegal colony attacked the protestors by hurling stones at them and by spraying them with waste-water.

The settlement is located in the Vegetables Market that was taken over by the settlers and the army since 1994 and became a “no entry” zone to the Palestinians.

The protestors also marched towards a gate installed by the army to seal one of the roads that lead to Al Shuhada street, near Khan Shahin area, and demanded Israel to open all closed roads and to lift the illegal restrictions on the freedom of movement of the local Palestinians.

The head of the French organization stated that by touring in Hebron, he and his comrades, managed to observe the high price the Palestinians are paying due to the existence of settlements and the occupation.

Extremists Settlers Assualt Arab Students In Safad

Saturday October 23, 2010 13:10 by Sandy Khair - IMEMC & Agencies

On Friday midnight, a group of illegal Israeli extremist settlers hurled stones at students dorms, at the Academics College of Safad, in the Galilee.

The Arab students resisted the extremists until the arrival of the Israeli occupation government police to the scene. The police made no arrests and no injuries were reported.

This is the tenth reported attack carried out by fundamentalist Jews who are trying to force the Arab student out of area.

Recently, Chief Rabbi of Safad asked Jews not to rent or sell apartments to Arabs.

Jewish clerics also held an emergency conference to discuss plans that reduce the "risk" of Arabs presence in the Galilee; the conference was proceeded by several meetings on the same topic.

During the conference which was held under the banner ''Quiet war: Combating Assimilation in the Holy City of Safad", Safad chief Rabbi, Shmuel Elyahu asked Jews not to rent apartments to Arab students "in order to 'keep Safad clean".

Elyahu added that Jews who sell or rent to an Arab, must distance themselves from other Jews, and that the Jewish community should refrain from doing business with them,deny him the right to read from the Torah and ostracize them until "they retract their harmful deed", according to Elyahu.

The rabbi attacked the Israeli government for its plan to build a "Nursing School'' in Safad, as he believes that the vast majority would be Arab students.

Arab member of Knesset, Dr. Ahmad Tibi, asked the legal adviser of the Israeli government to question Elyahu and prosecute him.