Settelers attack internationals outside Kiriyat Arba

20/07/08　　
Escalating settler violence in Hebron: Settlers attack internationals with pepper spray

On Saturday settlers on two occasions attacked internationals with stones and pepper spray outside the Kiryat Arba in Hebron. The last days, following the arrival of a new Israeli troops with a decidedly more brutal and oppressive attitude, several incidents of harassment against Palestinians has taken place in Tel Rumedia and through out the city

After the arrival on Thursday of a new unit of the Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) the overall situation in Hebron has worsened considerably, according to both international activists and observers. Inside Tel Rumeida, the number of detentions of Palestinians have increased dramatically and seemingly random harassment and restrictions are abundant, making every day life for Palestinians even more difficult than usual. On Sunday the military arrested several persons from a Palestinian family for working their lands, and soldiers repeatedly occupied houses, apparently to be used as sniper and look out posts.

As two internationals on Saturday tried to perform a solidarity visit to a Palestinian family (lately the target of several attacks from settlers) living close to the Kiriyat Arba settlement they were attacked by a group of 5-10 young settlers and forced to leave the area. Israeli military, arriving at the scene made little to stop the harassment, despite that stones were thrown at the internationals, resulting in one slight injury.

In the afternoon settlers attacked a small group of Palestinians walking from their homes in the vicinity of the settlement. As internationals attempted to intervene they were once more attacked by settlers, this time also using pepper spray and destroying camera equipment. Like before, Israeli soldiers witnessing the events made little to stop the harassment. Abuse from settlers have escalated lately, in connection to the establishment of a small encampment in Palestinian lands outside the Kiriyat Arba, from where attacks on by-passers have been carried out. Despite numerous request from the TIPH and others to remove the settlers, the military has been reluctant to take action against the settlers.

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[iggy6]

The sickest thing of all is all the evidence of the parents of these animals actually teach their children as young as 4 years old to throw rocks at Palestinian children and pull the keffiyah's from old woman's heads. I've seen dozens of videos of 6,7,8,9 yr. old "settler" children kicking old women while their mothers look on laughing. This is worse than any racism I've ever seen. Gaxa is worse than the Warsaw Ghetto's. I should know, my mothers family was there. Go to ifAmericansOnlyKnewDOTorg

[iggy6]

The really ironic thing is that most of these "settlers" are really squatters who live off US taxpayers. They get paid from the Israeli government and US rightwing zionists to squat on illegal land. How would you feel if these animals took over your home and then started treating your grandparents, children, and neighbors like this? Boycott Israeli goods and Kosher food. Do not buy anything stamped with a Kosher tax. Google it because much of US food has been scammed into paying for this forgery

[ciph3r2012]

WHY IN THE FUCKING HELL THEY HAVE TO GO WITH CAMERAS LEAVE THE JEWS ALONE

[OriginofSource]

@iggy6 You can say EXACTLY the same thing about Palestinians, only that Palestinians not only teach their children to throw rocks and molotov cocktails at Israelis, they also teach them how to be suicide bombers in the future.

[AnaMaghribi05]

What's the fucken IDF o the israeli police doing in all this bull shit? It looks like they are protecting the agressors .Wake up WORLD !!!!

[TheEEStudent]

@iggy6 I always pull the keffiyah off old Arab woman's head! every time I see an old Arab woman I pull her keffiyah off her!*

* only problem with that, is that Arab women do not wear keffiyah - they wear hijab.

[earthwormjah]

@iggy6 I know, throwing rocks is bad, huh? Palestinians would never do that....

[XxIVIonSteR]

@eytan12 When the leader feel threatened by his people he start killing them to muffle the revolution. And no, in the countries with peace there aren't any more killing than in Israel amongst the israeli people.

Stop the racist talk, and stop all the conspriacy theories, denying reality won't make anything better. And you shouldn't really call me ignorant, since you have a chosen truth which you base your information on

[XxIVIonSteR]

@eytan12 Yes, everything are a conspiracy against you as soon as it's something that show information about what happens around there, and everyone who criticize Israel or the settlers are antisemites, I know all that bullshit.

No it's not absurd, because the settlers do the same against the palestinians, maybe not suicide runs, but they do kill them for nothing.

Do you know what a revolution is? Because that's what you're talking about.

[eytan12]

@XxIVIonSteR furthermore, just look at the Arab world right now, look how violent they are, why is it you never see Jews killing their own people and massacring civilians like you see in Egypt, Libya, Tunisia, Yemen, Iran, and basically everywhere else in the muslim world! Even the so called palestinian arabs kill each other, look what happened in Gaza with Hamas and Fatah! They ruthlessly murder each other! Your not convincing anyone here with your blatant ignorance of facts and reality!

[eytan12]

@XxIVIonSteR absolute nonsense! First of all, these people with the cameras are NOT tourists, get serious man, their international instigators. Their goal is to instigate Jews that live in so called disputed territories and then to turn on their camera and film their reactions inorder to upload it to youtube to make Jews look violent. And once again, comparing a Jew living in any part of the world, disputed or not, illegal or not to a suicide bomber, or an islamic jihadist militant is absurd!

[XxIVIonSteR]

@eytan12 I'm not saying THIS settlement would be illegal, but many are. And many of the settlers are the ones starting the fights by shooting at palestinians, running over their children or attacking elder ladies, as some examples. And it's just a small group that actually performs suicide runs, so stop acting like everyone' against you. And have you ever heard of TOURISTS taking PICTURES, and that many cameras have VIDEO? They probably got attacked for no reason and started filming it, period.