SETTLERS ATTACK SCHOOL, FORCING STUDENTS TO STUDY AT CHECKPOINT

Go figger. Settlers attack the school and its children but the children are forced to avoid the school due to suspicions THEY might be the terrorists? Am I missing something here beyond the usual nastiness of the Israeli military?

This school in Qurtuba has already got a very trouble history and the children attending it must be especially dedicated and brave young warriors. For more of its previous history, please go to this 2006 article of events that take place regularly.

 Feral settler girls stopped by Israeli soldier

from attacking Palestinian girls going home from school

Palestine News Network

October 15, 2011

On Tuesday, after a settlers’ attack on Qurtuba Girls’ School in Hebron, students were forced to continue their studies at the nearby Israeli checkpoint. This is the third day the students have been forbidden to enter the school.

School janitor Mohamad Zaloum told Palestinian state-run news wire Wafa that a group of settlers threw stones and empty bottles. Zaloum said he tried to stop them, but they beat him. 

School principal Ibtisam al-Jundi said that the Israeli forces are still forbidding faculty and students from entering the school under the pretext that no citizen is to pass without a thorough inspection at the electronic doors at the entrance to the settlement.   

Main access steps to Qurtuba School, now blocked
with razor wire

“We refused this decision, so the teachers lecture their students on the side of the road in front of the checkpoint,” said al-Jundi, referring to the Shuhada Street checkpoint at the entrance to the illegal Israeli settlement inside Hebron. 

Wafa sources in Hebron said that Israeli soldiers tried to prevent journalists from approaching the school, pointing out that peace workers from the Temporary International Presence in Hebron (TIPH) were allowed to visit the school. 

SETTLER ATTACK ON NABLUS SISTERS IS 33RD VEHICULAR ASSAULT FOR 2011

 

 

International Solidarity Movement, West Bank

October 7, 2011

"A settler car driving very fast on the road between Nablus and Ramallah ran us over while we were crossing the street, and then it hit another Palestinian car," said Saja Bilal Jumaa, 19, who was hospitalized with her sister Ahlam.

Saja was admitted with fractures to her pelvis and shoulder, while her sister suffered light injuries, medics at the hospital said.

Sajah, 19, and Ahlam Bilal, 18, from Kufr Qaddoum were injured on Tuesday October 4th by Israeli settler, Eliyaho Miller, on the main road in Huwara. 

The two women were walking to Ibn Sina College of Nursing where they are studying when the settler crashed his vehicle into the women. 

After he hit them both and Sajah was thrown 10 meters from the accident, he attempted to flee the scene by foot. Miller was stopped by a Palestinian taxi driver until the Israeli police came to make a report.

The hit and run accident occurred at 7:50am as the two sisters were walking to campus. 

As Sajah and Ahlam were about to cross the road, they both saw the settler’s car speed up when they stepped into the street. He made contact with Sajah first in her left shoulder which flung her body into the air until she fell 10 meters from the car. 

She now has suffered three broken bones in her upper left arm as well as both hips broken. 

Her sister Ahlam has a bruised, swollen eye and an injured right leg. Sajah was rushed to Rafidya hospital to be treated for the injuries.

Under Israeli law, the Israeli police are under obligation to call an Israeli ambulance when there are injuries of any sort of accident involving settlers. 

In the hesitancy from Israeli police to call an ambulance, Palestinians living in Huwara took it upon themselves to have an ambulance arrive in order to bring Sajah and Ahlam to the Nablus hospital. 

Both of the women said Israeli police and military personnel eventually arrived at the scene, but the Israeli army said it had no information on the accident and police reported that they were checking into details of the event.

This particular settler incident comes on the tails of increased harassment and violence towards Palestinians by Israelis. 

An official report quoted by Quds Press earlier this week stated that there were 33 cases of deliberate vehicular attacks by Israeli settlers against Palestinian civilians in the West Bank since the start of 2011. 

Farid Jaber, 8, was murdered after being hit by an Israeli settler’s car in Hebron on September 26th. 

Nasser Abu al-Kabbash, 20, was involved in a similar hit and run accident with an Israeli settler in Beit Dajan on October 10th.

All this is in addition to “price tag” violence from Israeli settlers, the uprooting and burning of olive trees in Palestinian cities around occupied West Bank as olive harvest begins, and increased legal persecution of Palestinians for trivial reasons. 

Sajah received surgery on October 7th for her 3 broken bones in the left shoulder which went successfully according to her doctor in Nablus.

The doctors at Rafidya are waiting to see how well her pelvis bones begin to heal before undergoing any correctional surgery.

JEWISH TERRORISTS STRIKE AGAIN, THIS TIME IN THE GALILEE

By Lizzy Ratner

October 3, 2011

Another day, another act of extreme “price tag” violence.  

It’s all getting to be terrifyingly, horrifyingly routine.

Early this morning, suspected Jewish extremists ~ or heck, let’s just call them what they are, suspected Jewish terrorists ~ set a mosque on fire on fire in Tuba Zangaria, a Bedouin village in the northern Galilee. The blaze caused “serious damage” to the mosque, police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld told The New York Times, and destroyed copies of the Koran as well as walls and rugs. 

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The arsonists also took the time to spray-paint a message in Hebrew on the outside walls of the mosque: the words “Price Tag,” “Revenge” and “Palmer.” “Palmer,” it is believed, is a reference to Asher Palmer, a settler from Hebron who was killed last week in a car crash that Israeli police have labeled a terrorist attack ~ though what the people of a small Bedouin village in northern Israeli have to do with the death of an Israeli settler near Kiryat Arba remains utterly perplexing.

This was the third arson attack on a mosque in the last month, but the first such attack committed inside Israel (the other two mosque-burnings have taken place in the West Bank). It is part of a growing trend of right-wing Jewish attacks on Palestinians, Palestinian property, and Jewish leftists that has grown so frequent and so organized that even the Shin Bet has begun, rather stunningly, to describe the attacks as “terrorist” incidents. According to a September 13th Haaretz article published titled “Shin Bet: Israel’s extreme rightists organizing into terror groups”.
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Extreme right-wing Jewish activists in the West Bank have moved from spontaneous acts against Arabs ~ following the demolition of Jewish homes by Israeli authorities, or terror attacks against Jews ~ to organized planning that includes use of a database of potential targets, according to new analysis by the Shin Bet security service.

The small groups of Jewish extremists are difficult to infiltrate and carry out surveillance on Arab villages and collect information about access points and escape routes in the villages. They are also collecting information about left-wing Israeli activists.

The fruits of this all this busy terrorist organizing have been widespread, vicious, and alarming, and have included everything from assaulting and brutalizing Palestinians to torching cars in Arab villages, uprooting and burning olive orchards, setting fire to mosques, attacking an Israeli military base in the West Bank, and vandalizing the property of well-known peace activists. 

And yet, much of it goes unreported or unremarked upon, gets treated as non-events by Israel’s media, security services, politicians, and public. “We’ve become used to it,” wrote Yossi Gurvitz in a disturbing article this past June in +972 titled “Settler ‘price tag’ pogroms against Palestinians go under the radar.” 

“Pogroms are a daily event ~ nothing to write home about, as long as they are kept within bounds. It’s background noise. A dog bites a man. Nothing to see here, move along.”

For whatever reasons, this morning’s attack on the Tuba Zangaria mosque did manage to break through the consensus of silence, enough at least to wrench statements out of both Benjamin Netanyahu and Shimon Peres. 

Peres later jogged up north with Israel’s two chief rabbis to survey the damage and express solidarity with Tuba Zangaira’s residents (and, perhaps, try to quell their protests). The only problem is that statements of outrage have only so much meaning when every other act, intention, and ambition of your administration is dedicated to displacing and disempowering the wounded population. 

They’re almost as absurd as, say, condemning the atrocities at Abu Ghraib when you and your advisers have given the green light to waterboarding, Guantanomo, and Shock-and-Awe.

Actually, come to think of it, George W. Bush didn’t condemn the atrocities at Abu Ghraib, not really, not initially. As the ever-brilliant Susan Sontag observed, he merely expressed shock and disgust at the photographs, “as if the fault or horror lay in the images, not in what they depict.” 

And sure enough, Netanyahu harped on the representation of the crime as well: “The images are shocking and have no place in the State of Israel,” he said (emphasis added).

Which means: expect more Price Tag attacks.

RAISING PIGS IN THE HOLY LAND?

September 5, 2011

By attendingtheworld

YES! A NEW BREED OF PIGS IS NOW BEING BRED AND ALLOWED TO ROAM FREELY!

These pigs are the Israeli Settlers Terrorists that Israeli Terror Forces recently announced they wanted to arm and train to quell any Palestinian uprising!

QUSRA, West Bank (Reuters) ~ Jewish settlers set fire to a mosque in the occupied West Bank on Monday, Palestinians said, in a likely reprisal for Israel’s dismantling of three buildings in an unauthorized settlement outpost hours earlier.

Abdel Azeem Wadi, a member of the village council in Qusra near the Palestinian city of Nablus, said settlers threw burning tyres into the mosque, damaging the entire first floor.

Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad denounced the attack as an act of terrorism.

“These acts are what threaten to pull the region into a cycle of violence,” Fayyad’s office said in a statement, adding that the Palestinians themselves would not revert to violence.

An Israeli police spokesman said police and army personnel had entered the village to inspect the damage to the mosque and that the investigation was ongoing. [Oh we feel much better now!]

Earlier on Monday, Israeli authorities enacted a court order and demolished three houses in Migron, a Jewish hilltop outpost.

The names of Migron and a second outpost were written in Hebrew on the mosque walls.

Some settlers have threatened to exact a price on Palestinians in response to Israeli government actions against unauthorized settlements.

Last month, the Supreme Court ruled that Israel must evacuate the entire Migron outpost by the end of March 2012, a spokeswoman for the court said.

Migron is one of about 100 small outposts that settlers built without government approval on land that Israel captured in a 1967 war and which Palestinians want for a future state.

The World Court deems all Israeli settlements illegal under international law ~ a ruling that Israel rejects.

Settler-related incidents resulting in Palestinian injuries and damage to property are up more than 50 percent this year, according to the U.N. Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, which documents violence in the Palestinian territories.

Palestinian authorities say settlers have attacked at least six mosques in the West Bank in the past two years. Fayyad’s office criticized the Israeli police for failing to track down those behind previous such violence.

“The prime minister holds Israel completely responsible for the continuation of these terrorist acts because of its failure to pursue the perpetrators of this type of attack on previous occasions and bring them to account,” its statement said.

Settler and military officials said last week that Israel’s military has been training Jewish settler security units to cope with any eruption of Palestinian protests alongside a planned bid for statehood at the United Nations this month.

(Reporting by Abed Omar Qusini, Tom Perry and Ari Rabinovitch; Editing by Louise Ireland)

Related articles:

West Bank mosque hit after partial outpost demolition (huffingtonpost.com)

Israel destroys 3 houses at illegal West Bank community (cnn.com)

West Bank mosque damaged by settlers in revenge attack (guardian.co.uk)

Israeli Army: 3 Houses Razed in West Bank Outpost (foxnews.com)