Na ondergenoemde aanval zijn inwoners van Yitzhar woedend het Arabische dorp Asira el-Kibliyeh, waar de dader vandaan kwam, binnengestormd om zich te wreken. Yitzhar is de afgelopen maanden meermaals door Palestijnen uit Asira aangevallen.
Helaas werd de wraakactie door een groep 'activisten' ondersteund. Premier Olmert heeft het voor eigen rechter spelen door deze mensen ongewoon fel veroordeeld. Hopelijk blijft het niet bij woorden, en worden de daders (van beide kanten) bestraft.
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The family traveled for Shabbat, the terrorist burned the house to the ground
Yigal Amitai - Spokesman - Yitzhar - 052-4767065
[Translation by IMRA]
13 September 2008
13 September 2008
A new height was reached in the attack by the Arabs of Asira el-Kibliyeh against the residents of Yitzhar. A terrorist entered the Shalhevet neighborhood at dawn, burned a home to the ground, tried to break into an additional home and knifed a child from the neighborhood.
Close to 06:30 a terrorist from the village entered the Shalhevet neighborhood in Yitzhar, dressed in jeans and a black shirt. The soldier posted at the position saw him, but says that he "didn't realize that it was a terrorist." The terrorist broke into the home of the Ben Shlomo family, which miraculously had gone for Shabbat to their parents in Rechovot. The terrorist burned the four room home to the ground, destroying all the belongings of the family of four.
The terrorist tried to break into the adjacent home of the Ofen family but the door was locked. He tried to open a window of the home, but the mother, Roital Ofer, saw him and struggled with him, thus preventing him from entering. The terrorist saw a 9 year old boy on the street on his was to the synagogue, and knifed him. The child struggled with him, but the terrorist overwhelmed him and threw him down a nearby ravine of some five meters depth.
This is the seventh arson incident in recent months carried out by the Arabs of Asira against Yitzhar.
Despite this, neither the police nor the IDF has taken any significant step to arrest the arsonists or deter them.
Instead of this, IDF Central Command chief, Major-General Gadi Shamni decided only two weeks ago to remove one of the residents of the neighborhood from his home because of the approaching Palestinian olive harvest. "Unfortunately, the olives of the Arabs of Asira are more important to General Shamni than the blood of a Jewish child."
Close to 06:30 a terrorist from the village entered the Shalhevet neighborhood in Yitzhar, dressed in jeans and a black shirt. The soldier posted at the position saw him, but says that he "didn't realize that it was a terrorist." The terrorist broke into the home of the Ben Shlomo family, which miraculously had gone for Shabbat to their parents in Rechovot. The terrorist burned the four room home to the ground, destroying all the belongings of the family of four.
The terrorist tried to break into the adjacent home of the Ofen family but the door was locked. He tried to open a window of the home, but the mother, Roital Ofer, saw him and struggled with him, thus preventing him from entering. The terrorist saw a 9 year old boy on the street on his was to the synagogue, and knifed him. The child struggled with him, but the terrorist overwhelmed him and threw him down a nearby ravine of some five meters depth.
This is the seventh arson incident in recent months carried out by the Arabs of Asira against Yitzhar.
Despite this, neither the police nor the IDF has taken any significant step to arrest the arsonists or deter them.
Instead of this, IDF Central Command chief, Major-General Gadi Shamni decided only two weeks ago to remove one of the residents of the neighborhood from his home because of the approaching Palestinian olive harvest. "Unfortunately, the olives of the Arabs of Asira are more important to General Shamni than the blood of a Jewish child."
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Four Palestinians hurt as West Bank settlers retaliate for stabbing
By Yuval Azoulay, Haaretz Correspondent and The Associated Press
A Palestinian infiltrator stabbed a 9-year-old settler in the West Bank outpost of Shalhevet early Saturday, sparking a settler rampage in the nearby Palestinian village Asira al-Kabaliya.
The Israel Defense Forces reported that four Palestinians had been hurt in the clashes, two of them moderately.
The mayor of the village, Hosni Sharaf, said dozens of settlers from Yitzhar, the settlement adjacent to Shalhevet, fired their weapons in the air, overturned a car and broke the windows of three homes. The mayor said several residents had been wounded, of which two were shot with live rounds.
The Israel Defense Forces imposed a curfew on Asira al-Kabaliya following the clash. The Israel Defense Forces reported that four Palestinians had been hurt in the clashes, two of them moderately.
The mayor of the village, Hosni Sharaf, said dozens of settlers from Yitzhar, the settlement adjacent to Shalhevet, fired their weapons in the air, overturned a car and broke the windows of three homes. The mayor said several residents had been wounded, of which two were shot with live rounds.
Events began early Saturday when a Palestinian man set fire to an abandoned building in Shalhevet, the IDF said. The boy was stabbed when he spotted the intruder and tried to call for help, the military said. The boy was treated for minor wounds at a hospital in Petah Tikvah.
The resulting rampage continued for almost three hours.
Resident Ahmed Daoud said settlers broke windows in his house and shot at water tanks on his rooftop. He said he, his children and a neighbor threw stones from the roof to try to drive the assailants away.
Daoud said his 10-year-old son was lightly hurt by shrapnel and that the neighbor was hit in the face by a rubber-coated steel bullet.
Sharaf said that in all, two villagers were hit by live fire and four by rubber bullets. It was not clear whether soldiers also opened fire to enforce the curfew.
One of those hit by live fire, 17-year-old Wafa Subboh, was struck in the shoulder and was treated at Raffidiyeh Hospital in the nearby city of Nablus, hospital officials said.
Human rights organization Peace Now issued a response to the day's events, urging the government to revoke the gun licenses of the settlers. Peace Now Secretary General Yariv Oppenheimer said "the settlers don't miss any opportunity to cause harm to Palestinians and endanger human lives."
On Friday, IDF troops dispersed a gathering of Palestinian protesters in the West Bank city of Hebron. The soldiers fired into the air as protesters hurled rocks at troops stationed in the city's Jewish settlements.
The disturbance began shortly after IDF soldiers detained two armed Palestinian police officers who entered the town's Jewish area, which is outside their jurisdiction. The two were questioned and subsequently released.
Another disturbance took place on Friday in Bil'in, west of Ramallah, when 140 Palestinians hurled rocks at IDF troops stationed near the West Bank separation barrier. The IDF reported that no one was hurt in the incident, but the barrier sustained some damage.
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