WEST BANK, October 6, 2015
(WAFA) – Israeli extremist settlers, protected by Israeli soldiers, late Monday
and early Tuesday continued - for the
fifth consecutive day - their violent
revenge attacks against Palestinians all over the West Bank districts.
In Jenin district, in northern
West Bank, illegal Jewish settlers broke into the sites of the abandoned settlements
of Sa-Nur (Tersilla) and Homesh, close to Nablus-Jenin road, and pelted stones
toward passing Palestinian vehicles while chanting racist slogans against them.
Settlers from the nearby
illegal settlement of Mevo Dotan, illegally built on Ya’bad town’s land, also
attacked with stones passing Palestinian vehicles at Jenin-Tulkarm road and
shouted racist slogans. No injuries were reported.
Majdi Herzallah, a minibus
driver from Ya’bad, said other drivers and himself survived a stone attack by Mevo Dotan’s
settlers, but when he tried to rush out of the scene his minibus collided with
Israeli-erected cement cubes, causing partial damages to the car, while the
driver sustained no injuries.
Meanwhile last Monday night,
settlers accompanied by a military escort stormed the village of al-Funduq, to
the east of Qalqilia, provoking confrontations with Palestinian villagers.
Israeli soldiers then fired
teargas canisters and stun grenades towards the protesters, causing multiple
cases of suffocation by teargas inhalation. The suffocation cases included a
5-year-old child.
Later on Sunday morning,
settlers raided the outer side of the village of Deir Nizam near Ramallah and
attacked a home with stones, before dozens of youths rushed to the scene to
confront the attacking settlers.
An army force then entered the
village and provoked confrontations with Palestinian youths. There were reports
of suffocation cases by teargas inhalation, as soldiers used teargas to
disperse the angry youths.
Meanwhile in Hebron district, Jewish
settlers protected by Israeli soldiers attacked with stones the house of
Mahmoud Abu-Kabita, a Palestinian from the town of Beit Ummar.
The stone attack resulted in
the injury of Abu-Kabita’s son, 13-year-old Osama, after being struck in the
head by a stone. The stone attack also smashed the windows and the heating
system in the house.
The latest escalation in
violence by settlers came in the aftermath of the Israeli attempts to divide
al-Aqsa Mosque, Islam's third holiest place, between Muslims and Jews.
Tension has mounted across the
West Bank districts and Jerusalem with Israel’s repeated assault on al-Aqsa
Mosque Compound, particularly its growing attempts to temporally divide the
site between Muslims and Jews.
The situation has also been
significantly deteriorating since the deadly arson attack on the Dawabsheh’s
family home on July 31, which was carried out by Jewish settlers.
In the past two weeks alone, about
seven Palestinian youths were killed by the Israeli army during an ongoing
unrest across the West Bank and Jerusalem.
M.N./T.R.
