[News] Israeli Settler and Soldier Attacks Against Palestinians Continue on Sunday

[Anti-Imperialist News]

  Settler and Soldier Attacks Continue on Sunday

author Sunday October 25, 2015 23:36author by IMEMC News & Agencies
*http://www.imemc.org/article/73573*

    Israeli attacks on Palestinian civilians continued throughout the
    occupied West Bank, on Sunday, as soldiers assaulted and beat up a
    Palestinian driver working for the ministry of health. Settler
    attacks on Palestinians were also reported in the Jerusalem
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    and Hebron
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    districts.

Israeli soldiers, Sunday, assaulted and beat up a Palestinian driver 
working for the ministry of health as he attempted to cross through 
Za’tara Israeli military checkpoint, on Nablus-Ramallah road, according 
to local sources.

Media officials at the Ministry of Health said the driver, 22-year-old 
Sulaiman Ahmed, was forced out of the car and thrown to the ground, 
before being brutally assaulted – under gunpoint - by Israeli soldiers 
stationed at the checkpoint. The driver sustained bruises throughout his 
body, WAFA correspondence reported.

The soldiers also searched the car thoroughly and without justification.

Also on Sunday, an Israeli settler opened live fire and seriously 
injured a Palestinian youth near Hebron, according to medical sources 
and witnesses and medical sources.

Witnesses said that an armed Israeli settler fired at least four bullets 
at Azzam Shalaldeh, 20, while he was picking olives in Wadi Sa’ir 
locality, northeast of Hebron, seriously injuring him in the neck, 
abdomen and foot.

Shalaldeh was transferred to Hebron’s Private Hospital for medical 
treatment, where his condition was described as critical.

Earlier Sunday, extremist Jewish settlers from the so-called ‘price tag’ 
group at dawn Sunday set a Palestinian-owned car on fire and spray 
painted racists graffiti on walls in Um Tuba, a village just southeast 
of Jerusalem, according to local sources.

According to witnesses, settlers from the ‘price tag’ group set a car 
ablaze and painted racist slogans that call for the killing of 
Palestinians, in addition to the Jewish Star of David. The car belongs 
to local Nayef Abu Tair.

The group has conducted similar attacks in Jerusalem and across the West 
Bank in recent years.

Violence by illegal Jewish settlers is commonplace. They have repeatedly 
attacked Palestinian property and worship places. Settler violence 
includes property and mosques’ arsons, stone-throwing, uprooting of 
crops and olive trees, and attacks on vulnerable homes, among others.

‘Price tag’ attacks mainly include acts of anti-Arab vandalism; it 
refers to an underground anti-Arab Israeli group that carries out 
terrorist acts against Palestinian Muslims and Christians in the 
occupied territories and inside the occupied 1948 land.

The Israeli government is yet to declare the group and its acts as 
terrorism despite a sharp rise in their attacks against Palestinians in 
the West Bank, East Jerusalem and inside Israel.

On July 31, a group of Jewish fanatics carried out a deadly arson attack 
against a home in Nablus’ village of Douma. The attack claimed the lives 
of a couple and their toddler son, Ali. Four-year-old Ahmad – who is 
still receiving treatment for his critical burns at Israeli hospitals - 
is the last surviving member of the Dawabsha 
<http://www.imemc.org/newswire?search_text=Dawabsha&button=Search+%3E%3E> family.

There has been a noticeable increase in violence by Israeli Jewish 
settlers against Palestinians and their properties across the West Bank 
districts and Jerusalem during the past few weeks.

According to the Ministry of Health, at least 57 Palestinians were 
killed by Israeli forces and settlers during the ongoing security 
escalation since the beginning of this month.

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