HEBRON, November 19, 2006, (WAFA)- Armed Jewish colonisers attacked Sunday Palestinian citizens in the West Bank (WB) city of Hebron, witnesses said.

They told WAFA that the colonisers attacked several Palestinian families in the town of Yatta, south of Hebron, and damaged their property.

The armed colonisers assaulted women, children and men with clubs and rifle guns and pieces of rocks.

Witnesses said that they damaged the tanks of fresh water and power transmitter.

Residents of the town said that the colonisers used assaulting them to force them to leave their own land for the sake expanding the Jewish colony of Maoon, east of Yatta.

S.A.S. (13:18 P) (11:18 GMT)