Monday 4 July 2011

Jewish settlers set on fire hundreds of Palestinian olive trees, attack citizens’ homes in Nablus village




Jewish settlers set on fire hundreds of Palestinian olive trees
[ 04/07/2011 - 10:42 AM ]
 
NABLUS, (PIC)-- Jewish settlers torched hundreds of Palestinian olive trees south of Nablus on Sunday night, local sources said.
They said that tens of settlers from Itamar settlement attacked the olive fields of Aqraba village and set them on fire, destroying 450 trees including 150 that are hundreds of years old.
Jewish settlers’ attacks have recently escalated against citizens’ cultivated land lots especially south of Nablus.



Hundreds of settlers attack citizens’ homes in Nablus village
[ 04/07/2011 - 09:18 AM ]

NABLUS, (PIC)-- Hundreds of Jewish settlers attacked the homes of Palestinian citizens in Assira Al-Qabaliya village, south of Nablus, on Sunday night, local sources said.
They added that more than 500 settlers attacked the villages under protection of the Israeli occupation forces (IOF) and threw stones at the houses breaking the windows of many of them.

Witnesses said that the inhabitants retaliated throwing stones at the attackers, adding that the IOF soldiers intervened and fired rubber bullets and gas canisters at the Palestinian citizens causing breathing problems among many of them, some of whom fainted. They said that a woman was among those who received field treatment for gas suffocation.

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