31 dec 2014
A 10-year-old Palestinian boy was hit Wednesday morning by a vehicle driven by an Israeli fanatic settler, causing him injuries and bruises.
Palestinian medics in Bethlehem said the child, Amir Majed Suleiman, was rushed to the Beit Jala public hospital after an Israeli fanatic settler ran over him on the main road to Takoua village while he was on his way to school.
Meanwhile, a gang of Israeli vandals at dawn Wednesday set fire to a Palestinian family home in Yatta, to the south of al-Khalil city, using Molotov Cocktails.
The house was partially torched by the settlers who sprayed anti-Arab and racist graffiti, reading “leave with dignity,” on its walls.
The Israeli occupation forces (IOF) summoned two Palestinian youths from al-Khalil for interrogation following a round of abrupt assaults on family homes in Beit Ummar and Awa towns.
A number of schoolchildren were treated for breathing disorders due to heavy inhalation of tear gas unleashed by the IOF during the wave of cashes that rocked southern al-Khalil, local sources reported.
In a related development, the Palestinian natives of Qasra town, south of the northern West Bank city of Nablus, were on the alert to a round of assaults launched by setter hordes of the so-called Aish Kodesh settlement outpost built over Palestinian lands.
The assault came a few hours after the Israeli vandals urged the IOF to force Palestinian farmers out of their cultivated land tracts in the neighboring towns of Jaloud and Qaryout.
Palestinian medics in Bethlehem said the child, Amir Majed Suleiman, was rushed to the Beit Jala public hospital after an Israeli fanatic settler ran over him on the main road to Takoua village while he was on his way to school.
Meanwhile, a gang of Israeli vandals at dawn Wednesday set fire to a Palestinian family home in Yatta, to the south of al-Khalil city, using Molotov Cocktails.
The house was partially torched by the settlers who sprayed anti-Arab and racist graffiti, reading “leave with dignity,” on its walls.
The Israeli occupation forces (IOF) summoned two Palestinian youths from al-Khalil for interrogation following a round of abrupt assaults on family homes in Beit Ummar and Awa towns.
A number of schoolchildren were treated for breathing disorders due to heavy inhalation of tear gas unleashed by the IOF during the wave of cashes that rocked southern al-Khalil, local sources reported.
In a related development, the Palestinian natives of Qasra town, south of the northern West Bank city of Nablus, were on the alert to a round of assaults launched by setter hordes of the so-called Aish Kodesh settlement outpost built over Palestinian lands.
The assault came a few hours after the Israeli vandals urged the IOF to force Palestinian farmers out of their cultivated land tracts in the neighboring towns of Jaloud and Qaryout.
29 dec 2014
Members of the teaching staff at a high school in al-Khalil city reportedly blacked out after they inhaled a mysterious substance wrapped in a postcard allegedly dispatched from Italy.
Spokesperson for the Palestinian police in al-Khalil city, Bashir al-Natsha, said in a press release that the school headmaster, Abd Abu Sneina, and a group of three tutors at al-Hussein high school fainted upon unwrapping the envelope.
The wrapper contains a booklet talking about the cosmos and a sticky substance coated with a nylon bag.
Local sources identified the three other casualties as the school’s secretary Fadi Shahada along with Nidhal al-Qawasma and Hamdi Siyaj.
The teaching personnel were rushed to al-Khalil’s public hospital to receive urgent treatment.
The Quds Press quoted Natsha as reporting that the Palestinian explosives disposal unit came on the spot and launched a probe into the incident moments before they seized the envelope and transferred it to an explosives plant in Ramallah to check up the substance.
Earlier, one week ago, al-Khalil Mayor Daoud Zaatari condemned the Israeli vandals after he received a postcard containing a toxic substance and an anonymous dead threat. One of the municipality guards was poisoned in the process.
Spokesperson for the Palestinian police in al-Khalil city, Bashir al-Natsha, said in a press release that the school headmaster, Abd Abu Sneina, and a group of three tutors at al-Hussein high school fainted upon unwrapping the envelope.
The wrapper contains a booklet talking about the cosmos and a sticky substance coated with a nylon bag.
Local sources identified the three other casualties as the school’s secretary Fadi Shahada along with Nidhal al-Qawasma and Hamdi Siyaj.
The teaching personnel were rushed to al-Khalil’s public hospital to receive urgent treatment.
The Quds Press quoted Natsha as reporting that the Palestinian explosives disposal unit came on the spot and launched a probe into the incident moments before they seized the envelope and transferred it to an explosives plant in Ramallah to check up the substance.
Earlier, one week ago, al-Khalil Mayor Daoud Zaatari condemned the Israeli vandals after he received a postcard containing a toxic substance and an anonymous dead threat. One of the municipality guards was poisoned in the process.
Hebron school employees ill after opening suspicious package
Israeli bulldozers, Sunday, razed agricultural lands belonging to Palestinians in Khirbet al-Taweel, located to the south of Nablus. Two Hebron district schools were also reported to have been targeted with unnecessary violence.
Member of the anti-settlement committee in Aqraba, Yousif Dirieh, told WAFA Palestinian News & Info Agency that Israeli bulldozers razed several dunams of land planted with wheat crops in the locale, destroying the harvest.
Soldiers also set up earth mounds in the area, as a prelude for military training exercises.
Israeli forces follow a systematic policy of targeting agricultural land that is considered to be the main livelihood of Palestinians, as an attempt to force residents to leave their land, for the benefit of settlement expansion.
The occupied West Bank is also a scene of frequent settler attacks against Palestinians and their property, including physical assaults on farmers, in addition to crop theft and/or destruction, which is often done under the protection of Israeli soldiers.
WAFA notes that settler attacks against Palestinian farmers increase significantly during the olive harvest season.
Farmers often complain of sewage water pumped from nearby settlements into their land, thus destroying their crops.
The PNN reports that eyewitnesses and Palestinian shepherds, Sunday, complained about factories in the industrial zone of "Burkhan" Israeli settlement, near Salfit, in the northern West Bank, as settlers routinely dump their waste-water into the region's valleys over the weekend.
Researcher Khaled Ma'ali said that the waste-water from Borkan factory is not poured gradually but, rather, all at once.
The four industrial zones pouring the "skunk water" into the Salfit valleys are located in Ariel, Borkan, Amanoel and Zahav illegal settlements, according to eyewitnesses.
Ma'ali assured that the environmental pollution caused by the settlements' industrial zones takes long years to recover, and will cause extensive environmental destruction.
He is calling on environment organizations to hold Israeli authorities accountable for the damage it is causing, and to compensate those affected.
Related: Israeli Police Adopt New Crowd Control Method in Jerusalem
Furthermore, on Sunday, Israeli soldiers violently raided a boys’ school in the town of al-Khader, to the south of Bethlehem, in search of two students.
Witnesses told WAFA that a number of soldiers raided the school yard and the principal’s office in a brutal manner, in search of the two students, spreading panic and fear among other students.
The teaching staff prevented the soldiers from coming near the students, however, and forced them out of the school.
Israeli forces often target schools and other educational facilities and tends to use excessive force against students and teaching staff, in further violation of international law.
“Fifty-eight education-related incidents affecting 11,935 children were reported in the West Bank in 2013, resulting in damage to school facilities, interruption of classes and injury to children,” according to the United Nations Special Representative for Children and Armed Conflict.
The organization reported that “forty-one incidents involved Israeli security forces operations near or inside schools, forced entry without forewarning, the firing of tear gas canisters and sound bombs into school yards and, in some cases, structural damage to schools.”
In related news, the principal of al-Hussein Ibn Ali school, in Hebron, as well as the school secretary and janitor have fallen ill after receiving a suspicious package on Sunday, a local official said.
Director of the Hebron branch of the Palestinian Ministry of Education Bassam Tahboub told Ma'an News Agency that the three employees began suffering from nausea and dizziness immediately after opening an envelope that had arrived from Italy.
"When the school principal, Abd al-Muati Abu Sneina, opened it in the presence of secretary Fadi Shehada and janitor Nidal al-Qawasmi, they all started to sneeze in an unusual way and they had nausea and dizziness before they were evacuated to the public hospital of Hebron," he said.
Director of the area's public hospital, Abdullah al-Qawasmi, said that the three would remain in the hospital for follow up, though he confirmed that the three are in stable condition.
They are suffering from agitation and continuous sneezing caused by a "gluey material wrapped in cellophane inside the envelope," he further stated.
The material has been sent to governmental laboratories to be tested, while Palestinian security services have launched an investigation into the incident.
The case is the third of its kind in Hebron in recent weeks.
See also: 12/10/14 Mayor of Hebron Sent Toxic Substance and Death Threats
Israeli bulldozers, Sunday, razed agricultural lands belonging to Palestinians in Khirbet al-Taweel, located to the south of Nablus. Two Hebron district schools were also reported to have been targeted with unnecessary violence.
Member of the anti-settlement committee in Aqraba, Yousif Dirieh, told WAFA Palestinian News & Info Agency that Israeli bulldozers razed several dunams of land planted with wheat crops in the locale, destroying the harvest.
Soldiers also set up earth mounds in the area, as a prelude for military training exercises.
Israeli forces follow a systematic policy of targeting agricultural land that is considered to be the main livelihood of Palestinians, as an attempt to force residents to leave their land, for the benefit of settlement expansion.
The occupied West Bank is also a scene of frequent settler attacks against Palestinians and their property, including physical assaults on farmers, in addition to crop theft and/or destruction, which is often done under the protection of Israeli soldiers.
WAFA notes that settler attacks against Palestinian farmers increase significantly during the olive harvest season.
Farmers often complain of sewage water pumped from nearby settlements into their land, thus destroying their crops.
The PNN reports that eyewitnesses and Palestinian shepherds, Sunday, complained about factories in the industrial zone of "Burkhan" Israeli settlement, near Salfit, in the northern West Bank, as settlers routinely dump their waste-water into the region's valleys over the weekend.
Researcher Khaled Ma'ali said that the waste-water from Borkan factory is not poured gradually but, rather, all at once.
The four industrial zones pouring the "skunk water" into the Salfit valleys are located in Ariel, Borkan, Amanoel and Zahav illegal settlements, according to eyewitnesses.
Ma'ali assured that the environmental pollution caused by the settlements' industrial zones takes long years to recover, and will cause extensive environmental destruction.
He is calling on environment organizations to hold Israeli authorities accountable for the damage it is causing, and to compensate those affected.
Related: Israeli Police Adopt New Crowd Control Method in Jerusalem
Furthermore, on Sunday, Israeli soldiers violently raided a boys’ school in the town of al-Khader, to the south of Bethlehem, in search of two students.
Witnesses told WAFA that a number of soldiers raided the school yard and the principal’s office in a brutal manner, in search of the two students, spreading panic and fear among other students.
The teaching staff prevented the soldiers from coming near the students, however, and forced them out of the school.
Israeli forces often target schools and other educational facilities and tends to use excessive force against students and teaching staff, in further violation of international law.
“Fifty-eight education-related incidents affecting 11,935 children were reported in the West Bank in 2013, resulting in damage to school facilities, interruption of classes and injury to children,” according to the United Nations Special Representative for Children and Armed Conflict.
The organization reported that “forty-one incidents involved Israeli security forces operations near or inside schools, forced entry without forewarning, the firing of tear gas canisters and sound bombs into school yards and, in some cases, structural damage to schools.”
In related news, the principal of al-Hussein Ibn Ali school, in Hebron, as well as the school secretary and janitor have fallen ill after receiving a suspicious package on Sunday, a local official said.
Director of the Hebron branch of the Palestinian Ministry of Education Bassam Tahboub told Ma'an News Agency that the three employees began suffering from nausea and dizziness immediately after opening an envelope that had arrived from Italy.
"When the school principal, Abd al-Muati Abu Sneina, opened it in the presence of secretary Fadi Shehada and janitor Nidal al-Qawasmi, they all started to sneeze in an unusual way and they had nausea and dizziness before they were evacuated to the public hospital of Hebron," he said.
Director of the area's public hospital, Abdullah al-Qawasmi, said that the three would remain in the hospital for follow up, though he confirmed that the three are in stable condition.
They are suffering from agitation and continuous sneezing caused by a "gluey material wrapped in cellophane inside the envelope," he further stated.
The material has been sent to governmental laboratories to be tested, while Palestinian security services have launched an investigation into the incident.
The case is the third of its kind in Hebron in recent weeks.
See also: 12/10/14 Mayor of Hebron Sent Toxic Substance and Death Threats
23 dec 2014
The Israeli occupation forces (IOF) on Monday and at dawn Tuesday rounded up 13 Palestinian citizens throughout a round of assaults launched across different cities of the West Bank.
Local sources said seven Hamas affiliates were among the newly captured Palestinians.
The detainees have all been dragged by the IOF to investigation centers, the sources added.
A PIC journalist quoted by-standers at the scene as reporting that the Israeli occupation army kidnapped four youngsters, aged between 22 and 26 years-old, from the West Bank city of al-Khalil after having raided their family homes and ransacked them.
Earlier on Monday the IOF apprehended three Palestinian civilians following an abrupt assault on the Fawar refugee camp, south of al-Khalil city.
A number of makeshift roadblocks were abruptly pitched by the IOF at the main entrances to the camp, where Palestinians’ vehicles were provocatively scoured.
Meanwhile, the IOF troops targeted a group of Palestinian schoolchildren in al-Khalil’s Old City with heavy barrages of tear gas canisters and sound bombs randomly unleashed throughout the assault.
Local sources said seven Hamas affiliates were among the newly captured Palestinians.
The detainees have all been dragged by the IOF to investigation centers, the sources added.
A PIC journalist quoted by-standers at the scene as reporting that the Israeli occupation army kidnapped four youngsters, aged between 22 and 26 years-old, from the West Bank city of al-Khalil after having raided their family homes and ransacked them.
Earlier on Monday the IOF apprehended three Palestinian civilians following an abrupt assault on the Fawar refugee camp, south of al-Khalil city.
A number of makeshift roadblocks were abruptly pitched by the IOF at the main entrances to the camp, where Palestinians’ vehicles were provocatively scoured.
Meanwhile, the IOF troops targeted a group of Palestinian schoolchildren in al-Khalil’s Old City with heavy barrages of tear gas canisters and sound bombs randomly unleashed throughout the assault.
15 dec 2014
The Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) attacked Monday morning a secondary school to the south of Nablus city.
Eyewitnesses told a PIC reporter that IOF soldiers stormed Burin town and deployed in the vicinity of the school amid heavy fire of tear gas bombs into its courtyard.
Violent clashes erupted in the area where Palestinian youths responded by throwing stones and empty bottles towards the soldiers.
Israeli forces justified their attack on the school claiming that a group of youths stoned a settler's car passing near the school.
A local activist confirmed to the PIC reporter that dozens of Israeli soldiers violently broke into the school and brutally attacked the students which led to the outbreak of clashes.
Burin secondary school has been subjected to similar attacks more than once under flimsy pretexts, he added.
On the other hand, a makeshift military checkpoint was erected overnight between Burin and Madama towns, in southern Nablus, shortly after an Israeli jeep crashed in a skidding accident in the area.
Similar clashes between IOF soldiers and Palestinian school students were reported Monday in Sourif town, north of al-Khalil, eyewitnesses told the PIC.
They said that an IOF raid into the town triggered the confrontations, adding that the soldiers fired live and metal bullets in addition to teargas bombs at the students.
Eyewitnesses told a PIC reporter that IOF soldiers stormed Burin town and deployed in the vicinity of the school amid heavy fire of tear gas bombs into its courtyard.
Violent clashes erupted in the area where Palestinian youths responded by throwing stones and empty bottles towards the soldiers.
Israeli forces justified their attack on the school claiming that a group of youths stoned a settler's car passing near the school.
A local activist confirmed to the PIC reporter that dozens of Israeli soldiers violently broke into the school and brutally attacked the students which led to the outbreak of clashes.
Burin secondary school has been subjected to similar attacks more than once under flimsy pretexts, he added.
On the other hand, a makeshift military checkpoint was erected overnight between Burin and Madama towns, in southern Nablus, shortly after an Israeli jeep crashed in a skidding accident in the area.
Similar clashes between IOF soldiers and Palestinian school students were reported Monday in Sourif town, north of al-Khalil, eyewitnesses told the PIC.
They said that an IOF raid into the town triggered the confrontations, adding that the soldiers fired live and metal bullets in addition to teargas bombs at the students.
10 dec 2014
Students and teachers at Ibrahimiya school in al-Khalil city suffered breathing problems after Israeli occupation forces (IOF) fired teargas at them on Wednesday morning.
Eyewitnesses told the PIC that IOF soldiers fired teargas canisters and sound bombs at the school with no apparent reason.
They said that the students and teachers were surprised at the reckless attack and some of them suffered from teargas inhalation, adding that the school management called off classes in the wake of the attack.
IOF soldiers routinely fire teargas at schools, especially in southern al-Khalil, to terrorize students.
Eyewitnesses told the PIC that IOF soldiers fired teargas canisters and sound bombs at the school with no apparent reason.
They said that the students and teachers were surprised at the reckless attack and some of them suffered from teargas inhalation, adding that the school management called off classes in the wake of the attack.
IOF soldiers routinely fire teargas at schools, especially in southern al-Khalil, to terrorize students.
30 nov 2014
Death To Arabs Graffiti On School Wall
The “Hand in Hand Center for Jewish-Arab Education in Israel” has reported on Saturday at night that its two first-grade classrooms, in the Max Rayne Handed in Hand School in Jerusalem, were burnt and that anti-Arab graffiti was also sprayed on the walls.
It said that firefighters rushed to the school and managed to contain the fire before it spread to other rooms, adding that the two classrooms were badly burnt.
The Israeli fanatics also wrote racist graffiti, including the predominant “death to Arabs” slogan.
On its Facebook page, Hand in Hand said deputy mayor of Jerusalem visited the school after the attack, and described it as an attack aiming at “sabotaging any real cooperation between Jews and Arabs."
Hand in Hand CEO Shuli Dichter said following the attack, “Even if they stain our school walls, they will not succeed in destroying our work.”
Hand in Hand runs five schools with mixed Arab and Jewish students, and teaching the children using both Hebrew and Arabic language, and unlike other Israeli schools, it teaches the children about the Palestinian Nakba of 1948, and the “Israeli independence,” the Maan News Agency said.
On his Twitter account, senior Israeli journalist and author Yossi Melman wrote, “when will the Shin Bet (Internal Security), and the Police understand that Jewish terrorism will cause disaster to the Zionist project?”
Nadia Kinani, principal of Max Rayne School, told Israeli Walla News Agency that the school, parents and students will not be scared as they are doing a great job in this school, adding the attack will not deter the school and families from getting up in the morning and resuming classes.
“The solution is joint livelihood; this attack will not stop us, and we will continue our joint work in this school,” she said, “We will continue our mission in this educational facility along with the patients and students.”
Israeli fanatics are responsible for numerous attacks targeting Palestinian schools, orchards and farmlands, mosques and churches, and even graveyards, in addition to attacks targeting Israeli peace groups, activists and their property.
The “Hand in Hand Center for Jewish-Arab Education in Israel” has reported on Saturday at night that its two first-grade classrooms, in the Max Rayne Handed in Hand School in Jerusalem, were burnt and that anti-Arab graffiti was also sprayed on the walls.
It said that firefighters rushed to the school and managed to contain the fire before it spread to other rooms, adding that the two classrooms were badly burnt.
The Israeli fanatics also wrote racist graffiti, including the predominant “death to Arabs” slogan.
On its Facebook page, Hand in Hand said deputy mayor of Jerusalem visited the school after the attack, and described it as an attack aiming at “sabotaging any real cooperation between Jews and Arabs."
Hand in Hand CEO Shuli Dichter said following the attack, “Even if they stain our school walls, they will not succeed in destroying our work.”
Hand in Hand runs five schools with mixed Arab and Jewish students, and teaching the children using both Hebrew and Arabic language, and unlike other Israeli schools, it teaches the children about the Palestinian Nakba of 1948, and the “Israeli independence,” the Maan News Agency said.
On his Twitter account, senior Israeli journalist and author Yossi Melman wrote, “when will the Shin Bet (Internal Security), and the Police understand that Jewish terrorism will cause disaster to the Zionist project?”
Nadia Kinani, principal of Max Rayne School, told Israeli Walla News Agency that the school, parents and students will not be scared as they are doing a great job in this school, adding the attack will not deter the school and families from getting up in the morning and resuming classes.
“The solution is joint livelihood; this attack will not stop us, and we will continue our joint work in this school,” she said, “We will continue our mission in this educational facility along with the patients and students.”
Israeli fanatics are responsible for numerous attacks targeting Palestinian schools, orchards and farmlands, mosques and churches, and even graveyards, in addition to attacks targeting Israeli peace groups, activists and their property.
21 nov 2014
Wednesday, at approximately 11:00 in al-Khalil (Hebron) a settler from a nearby illegal settlement approached the Qurtuba school in H2 with a gun [H2 is the area of Hebron under Israeli military civil and security control].
The settler entered the school grounds, terrifying the children with his loaded gun. After some time the settler left but the children were forced to evacuate a building and move to another area of the school. The teachers asked for international presence until school was finished that day.
The children were rushed out of school early and internationals and Palestinians stood at a prominent place to ensure the children were safe. Not long after this, a settler attacked a Palestinian and threatened another. The settler threatened to stab a 16-year-old boy and another local Palestinian who tried to film the incident. 40-year-old Jawad Abu Aisha stated, “The settler told Awne (the 16-year-old) that he would bring a knife to stab him. Awne told me and I tried to tell the soldier so he would do something but he did not do anything. When I tried to film the settler he attacked me and tried to break my mobile but did not manage to do so.”
Eventually, and after much prompting by the Palestinians, the soldier stepped in and pulled the settler away. Both Palestinians were left badly shaken by the attack.
The settler entered the school grounds, terrifying the children with his loaded gun. After some time the settler left but the children were forced to evacuate a building and move to another area of the school. The teachers asked for international presence until school was finished that day.
The children were rushed out of school early and internationals and Palestinians stood at a prominent place to ensure the children were safe. Not long after this, a settler attacked a Palestinian and threatened another. The settler threatened to stab a 16-year-old boy and another local Palestinian who tried to film the incident. 40-year-old Jawad Abu Aisha stated, “The settler told Awne (the 16-year-old) that he would bring a knife to stab him. Awne told me and I tried to tell the soldier so he would do something but he did not do anything. When I tried to film the settler he attacked me and tried to break my mobile but did not manage to do so.”
Eventually, and after much prompting by the Palestinians, the soldier stepped in and pulled the settler away. Both Palestinians were left badly shaken by the attack.
19 nov 2014
Palestinian Home After Being Searched By The Soldiers
Several Palestinians injured as settlers attempted to invade a school in ‘Orif nearby village
Medical sources have reported, Tuesday, that a Palestinian teen was shot, and moderately injured by a live round, fired by an Israeli settler near Beiteen village, east of the central West Bank city of Ramallah. Settlers attack homes in Burin and Huwwara, near Nablus.
Medical sources in Ramallah said Ibrahim Daraghma, 19 years of age, suffered a gunshot injury to his jaw, and was moved to the Palestine Medical Center, in Ramallah.
He was shot after a number of settlers opened fire at Palestinians close to settlement bypass road #60, near the village, before dozens of soldiers invaded the area, leading to clashes with local youths.
In related news, a number of armed Israeli settlers attacked several homes at the main entrances of Burin village, and Huwwara town, south of the northern West Bank city of Nablus.
Local sources said the settlers invaded at least three homes, and managed to destroy the furniture of one of them, before a number of youths of the unarmed Popular Guards Committee forced them out of the village.
The home that sustained the most damage belongs to resident Ghaleb Najjar, while the homes of Atallah Abu Sufian and Marwan Najjar, sustained lesser property damage.
Spokesperson of the Fateh Movement in Huwwara village Awad Najm stated the settlers attacked the home of Salah Shawkat, close to the Huwwara Israeli military roadblock.
Najm added that Israeli soldiers also invaded the village, and violently closed its shops and stores.
A number of settlers also hurled stones at Palestinian cars, near the Yitzhar illegal settlement, built on Palestinian lands, south of Nablus, causing property damage but no injuries.
Settlers also closed the Huwwara roadblock from both directions, and prevented the Palestinians from crossing while the soldiers did not attempt to remove the settlers.
Earlier on Tuesday, several extremist settlers surrounded an elementary school in ‘Orif village near Nablus, and tried to invade it before throwing stones and bottles into the school, an issue that led to clashes between the residents and the invading settlers.
Soldiers arrived at the scene and clashed with the residents before firing gas bombs into the school, causing dozens of injuries among the students, teachers and medics who rushed to the scene.
The soldiers also invaded classrooms and violently searched them causing excessive property damage.
Several Palestinians injured as settlers attempted to invade a school in ‘Orif nearby village
Medical sources have reported, Tuesday, that a Palestinian teen was shot, and moderately injured by a live round, fired by an Israeli settler near Beiteen village, east of the central West Bank city of Ramallah. Settlers attack homes in Burin and Huwwara, near Nablus.
Medical sources in Ramallah said Ibrahim Daraghma, 19 years of age, suffered a gunshot injury to his jaw, and was moved to the Palestine Medical Center, in Ramallah.
He was shot after a number of settlers opened fire at Palestinians close to settlement bypass road #60, near the village, before dozens of soldiers invaded the area, leading to clashes with local youths.
In related news, a number of armed Israeli settlers attacked several homes at the main entrances of Burin village, and Huwwara town, south of the northern West Bank city of Nablus.
Local sources said the settlers invaded at least three homes, and managed to destroy the furniture of one of them, before a number of youths of the unarmed Popular Guards Committee forced them out of the village.
The home that sustained the most damage belongs to resident Ghaleb Najjar, while the homes of Atallah Abu Sufian and Marwan Najjar, sustained lesser property damage.
Spokesperson of the Fateh Movement in Huwwara village Awad Najm stated the settlers attacked the home of Salah Shawkat, close to the Huwwara Israeli military roadblock.
Najm added that Israeli soldiers also invaded the village, and violently closed its shops and stores.
A number of settlers also hurled stones at Palestinian cars, near the Yitzhar illegal settlement, built on Palestinian lands, south of Nablus, causing property damage but no injuries.
Settlers also closed the Huwwara roadblock from both directions, and prevented the Palestinians from crossing while the soldiers did not attempt to remove the settlers.
Earlier on Tuesday, several extremist settlers surrounded an elementary school in ‘Orif village near Nablus, and tried to invade it before throwing stones and bottles into the school, an issue that led to clashes between the residents and the invading settlers.
Soldiers arrived at the scene and clashed with the residents before firing gas bombs into the school, causing dozens of injuries among the students, teachers and medics who rushed to the scene.
The soldiers also invaded classrooms and violently searched them causing excessive property damage.
11 nov 2014
Dozens of Palestinian schoolchildren and tutors on Monday were treated for critical breathing disorders and gas injuries they sustained during an Israeli assault on two schools in the West Bank city of Ramallah.
A PIC correspondent quoted Palestinian instructor Mohamed Hamdan as reporting: “Dozens of our pupils were left with serious breathing difficulties as the Israeli occupation forces attacked the school with randomly-shot barrages of tear gas grenades, with no prior notification whatsoever.”
Local medics said at least nine pupils were rushed to Ramallah’s public hospital after they got suffocated and fainted due to tear gas inhalation.
By-standers at the scene denied the IOF’s alleged charges that the students of the Beitouna school, located a long way from the flashpoints with the Israeli occupation, might have been involved in hurling stones at the Israeli occupation troops.
The attack culminated in critical injuries among a number of female students at the Deir Ghassana School, many among whom were carried to a local clinic to receive urgent treatment.
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A PIC correspondent quoted Palestinian instructor Mohamed Hamdan as reporting: “Dozens of our pupils were left with serious breathing difficulties as the Israeli occupation forces attacked the school with randomly-shot barrages of tear gas grenades, with no prior notification whatsoever.”
Local medics said at least nine pupils were rushed to Ramallah’s public hospital after they got suffocated and fainted due to tear gas inhalation.
By-standers at the scene denied the IOF’s alleged charges that the students of the Beitouna school, located a long way from the flashpoints with the Israeli occupation, might have been involved in hurling stones at the Israeli occupation troops.
The attack culminated in critical injuries among a number of female students at the Deir Ghassana School, many among whom were carried to a local clinic to receive urgent treatment.
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