HEBRON, May 5, 2007 (WAFA) -International Solidarity Movement (ISM) said that a number of citizens and two international human rights workers (HRW) were attacked by Israeli colonizers in the Tel Rumeida district of Hebron.

In a press release issued Saturday, ISM revealed that three Israeli colonizers started to throw stones at the HR workers and to beat and poke them with a long pipe.

According to ISM, a citizen was viewing the scene from their yard and when he started to film the incident, the colonizers then turned their attention to the citizen and began to attack him with rocks. Though, according to the HRWs, the soldier was trying to prevent the stone throwing, colonizers managed to throw a few stoned before the Palestinians that were filming retreated inside the house.

In Tel Rumeida, Palestinians are not allowed to drive any type of cars, including buses, taxis, ambulances, and fire trucks. Israeli settler civilians are allowed to carry guns, while Palestinians are not allowed to have weapons of any kind. Palestinians are subjected to random detentions and ID checks (Israeli colonizers are not). Israeli soldiers frequently invade Palestinian homes or use their roofs as outposts the security forces in the neighborhood are Israeli only and ignore complaints by Palestinians. Last month, Israeli colonizers set fire to a Palestinian resident's car. Israeli soldiers refused to allow Palestinian fire trucks to enter Tel Rumeida to extinguish the fire.

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