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| Palestinian killed as West Bank unrest continues | |
| [ 25/09/2011 - 10:43 AM ] | |
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WEST BANK, (PIC)-- A surge of violence triggered by the PLO’s request for UN membership has left one Palestinian dead and scores injured as they fell into clashes with Israeli military forces and Jewish settlers in the West Bank. The clashes come amid an escalation of Jewish settler attacks and calls by Palestinian groups for a third intifada (uprising) and to respond to violence by Israeli forces. Palestinian Authority security forces carried out a wide-ranging arrest campaign ahead of Friday, when PA president Mahmoud Abbas formally petitioned for full Palestinian membership in the UN, rounding up some 50 Hamas supporters in the West Bank and summoning more than 500 in a two-day period, as the PASF vowed to crush outbreaks of mass protests that could turn into clashes with Israeli military forces. Regardless of the measures, clashes erupted in Jerusalem’s Arab Ras al-Amud district after Israeli soldiers provoked worshipers there, as well as in other areas in and around Jerusalem and the West Bank. One man was killed in Qusra village, southeast of Nablus, and others were injured by teargas and rubber bullets fired by IOF troops in a Palestinian response to attacks by Jewish settlers. On Sunday, Israeli occupation forces carried out a string of arrests in Al-Eizariyya near Jerusalem and Jewish settlers continued an onslaught of attacks across the West Bank, including on Palestinian villages south of Nablus city. Locals reported that settlers ambushed Palestinian motorists on a main road south of Nablus stoning vehicles. In separate incidents, settlers set fire to olive groves on the outskirts of Burin village, near Nablus, as villagers there were compelled into clashes with a joint force of Jewish settlers and Israeli occupation soldiers. On Saturday, a Palestinian motorist from Nahalin village was left with bruises in a crash that came after a group of Jewish settlers from nearby Beitar Illit pelted his vehicle with stones. Also on Sunday, informed Palestinian sources said a vehicle was struck by stones while passing a road to Jewish settlement Yitzhar, south of Nablus city. The owner of the vehicle has not been identified, according to the report. | |
Palestinian killed as West Bank unrest continues
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