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<h1 class="article-title">Escalated Attacks by Occupation Forces &
Settlers Throughout Gaza, West Bank and Jerusalem</h1>
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<span class="article-details"><span class="article-detail"><img
class="icon" src="cid:part1.04060007.08040403@freedomarchives.org"
alt="author"> Wednesday April 09, 2014 15:09</span><span
class="article-detail"><img class="icon"
src="cid:part2.08060501.01030302@freedomarchives.org" alt="author"> by
Chris Carlson<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.imemc.org/article/67496">http://www.imemc.org/article/67496</a><br>
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<p class="article-subtitle">Lands razed in Negev and to the west of
Hebron</p>
Israeli forces, stationed on the borders with the Gaza Strip, on
Wednesday, opened fire on a residential area adjacent to the borders
near Khan Yunes, according to media sources.
<p class="article">A WAFA correspondent said that soldiers opened live
fire towards homes in an area to the east of Khan Yunes. No injuries
were reported among local residents.<br>
<br>
Meanwhile, Israeli army vehicles, tanks and bulldozers continued their
daily raids and razing of private-owned agricultural areas near the
borders, amid sporadic gunfire and flying reconnaissance aircrafts over
the southern parts of the Gaza Strip.<br>
<br>
In a related matter, Israeli naval forces in the early morning hours
opened a hail of gunfire towards Palestinian fishermen’s boats off Khan
Yunes and Rafah, forcing them to head to shore. No injuries were
reported.<br>
<br>
Also on Wednesday, in the morning, Israeli forces razed
Palestinian-owned land in Abu al-Zuluf area to the west of Hebron,
according to an activist.<br>
<br>
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razed land belonging to residents of Tarqumiyah, a town located to the
northwest of Hebron, said Head of Taffuh Local Council Mahmoud Zreiqat.<br>
<br>
The land is located in Abu al-Zuluf area between Adora, an illegal
Israeli settlement built on Palestinian-owned land belonging to
residents of Tarqumiyah, and ‘Ayn Farʻa, an area that has many springs
and belong to residents of Dura, noted Zreiqat.<br>
<br>
He said that settlers from Adora and Telem, another illegal Israeli
settlement, installed steel poles and wires in the land, in order to
seize it as a prelude for expanding the two settlements and connect
them together.<br>
<br>
Residents were able to remove some of the poles and wires, said Mayor
of Tarqumiyah, Sami Fatafta. <br>
<br>
Israeli bulldozers, on Wednesday, demolished several Palestinian
Bedouin houses in the Negev desert, locals said, according to Ma'an
News Agency.<br>
<br>
Police vehicles escorted bulldozers across the Negev as they demolished
a number of structures in villages not recognized by Israeli
authorities.<br>
<br>
In the village of al-Zaarura, bulldozers demolished two houses
belonging to the Abu Judah family, witnesses said.<br>
<br>
Locals in the village of Kseifa said that bulldozers demolished houses
and tore down trees.<br>
<br>
Demolitions across the Negev are still ongoing, residents told Ma'an
Wednesday afternoon.<br>
<br>
Yesterday, hundreds of Palestinians and activists planted olive trees
in land threatened with seizure by Israel, in the village of Kherbat
Samra near Tubas, in the northern Jordan Valley.<br>
<br>
The event, which was attended by Tubas governor Rabih al-Khundagji, is
part of the popular resistance campaign against the Israeli procedures
of confiscating Palestinian private-owned land for the benefit of
settlement construction.<br>
<br>
Forces attempted to prevent Palestinians from planting the trees but
residents refused to leave and proceeded to plant hundreds of dunums of
land with olive trees.<br>
<br>
Al-Khundagji said that the continued Israeli attempts to seize the
Palestinian land and imposition of facts on ground are rejected,
stressing in the meantime the Palestinian people’s right to safeguard
their land against Israeli takeover by similar means.<br>
<br>
In al-Tawani area, to the east of Yatta, in the Hebron district, school
children were attacked by Israeli settlers, injuring two, according to
a local activist and police sources.<br>
<br>
Coordinator of the Anti-wall and Settlement Popular Committee Rateb
jabour said that settlers, under the protection of Israeli forces,
physically attacked students of al-Tawani school and hurled stones at
them, causing two female children, aged 13, to sustain bruises and
wounds.<br>
<br>
A press release issued by the Police Public Relations Department stated
that the two children were severely beaten by Israeli settlers while
they were outside their house and, as a result, they sustained moderate
wounds and were taken to the hospital to receive medical treatment.<br>
<br>
Meanwhile, soldiers sealed off the Jerusalem-Hebron road after fires
broke out in a military watchtower set up at the entrance of Beit Ummar.<br>
<br>
Also in Hebron, on Wednesday, WAFA reports that a Palestinian elderly
was severely attacked and injured by both Israeli settlers and soldiers
in al-Tawani and Um al-Kahir to the east of Yatta in Hebron district,
according to an activist.<br>
<br>
Forces severely beat 55-year-old Khadra al-Hathalin, causing her to
lose consciousness and sustain bruises. She was transferred to a
hospital for treatment, said Coordinator of the Anti-wall and
Settlement Popular Committee Rateb Jubur.<br>
<br>
In Jerusalem, Israeli settlers entered al-Aqsa Mosque, in a provocative
visit, assaulting and harassing outdoor female students under police
protection, according to witnesses.<br>
<br>
They said that police allowed the entrance of settlers in small groups
during the early morning hours, provoking worshipers and students who
chanted religious slogans in protest of the entrance of the extremists
to the holy site.<br>
<br>
Settlers, under police protection, attacked the students and
worshipers, spit at them while using foul language against them.<br>
<br>
Meanwhile, Israeli police, stationed at the gates leading to the
mosque, continued to impose intensive restrictions on Palestinian
worshipers’ entry to the mosque, especially on youth who are ordered to
hand over their ID cards to soldiers before they are alowed to enter
the mosque.<br>
<br>
Furthermore, Israeli forces and police abducted seven people in
Jerusalem, Hebron and Bethlehem as well as serving notices for the
demolition of two Palestinian-owned shops, according to reports by
local and security sources.<br>
<br>
Israeli police kidnapped four youth, in Jerusalem, after raiding their
houses in the Old City, raising the number of overall abductions, in
Jerusalem, to 14 in less than a month.<br>
<br>
Meanwhile in Hebron, the army kidnapped a 16-year-old in the village of
Tabaqa near Dora, to the west of Hebron. They also took a youth, aged
28, in Hebron and led him to an unknown destination.<br>
<br>
Forces further stormed the nearby village of Deir Samet and served
local residents with notices to demolish two stores in the area.
Meanwhile, army forces set military checkpoints at the entrance to
several towns in Hebron district, checking drivers’ and passengers’
identity cards and causing a traffic jam in the process.<br>
<br>
In Bethlehem, occupation forces stormed a home in As-Saf Street, in the
city, and ordered its owner to take them to the workplace of his
20-year-old son, where they took him away. </p>
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