Posted on 12/25/2007 2:30:38 PM PST by Alouette
A group of masked Israeli settlers beat and injured four Palestinian farmers tending to their field in the West Bank on Tuesday, Palestinian officials reported.
''They parked on the road and we thought they were just hiking but suddenly they put on masks and they sprayed me in my eyes and beat me and I couldn't see who it was,'' said farmer Hussein Asida, 46.
50-year-old Hashem Hamed, who was working alongside Asida in the field, was moderately injured and evacuated to the nearby hospital in Nablus with a broken arm and badly injured pelvis. Hospital officials told Ynet he also sustained a serious head injury and required eight stitches.
"They kept beating his head and body with a stick and also kicked him with their legs," Hamed's brother said from the hospital in Nablus. "The settlers from Havat Gilad have made our lives impossible. Most of their attacks are completely ignored by the IDF. Luckily, the olive harvest this year was brief, because usually this time of year is hell for us. The settlers beat us, tear down the trees and steal the olives," he said.
The settlers sprayed four Palestinians who were planting wheat with pepper gas and then beat them with sticks, witnesses said, among the Palestinians was a 15-year-old youth.
The Palestinians said the attackers spoke Hebrew among themselves. Settlers from the nearby outpost of Havat Gilad have been accused of assaulting Palestinians in the area in the past.
A local Palestinian leader, Omar Shtayeh, said he filed a complaint with Israeli authorities about
Tuesday's incident. Israeli police officials said that an investigation has been opened into the allegations, despite the fact that no formal complaint has been filed.
The Yesh Din human rights organization said that over the past five months its representatives have received complaints of three incidents in which settlers attacked Palestinians in the area. The group said that 90% of police investigations into such incidents fail to end in a conviction.
Efrat Weiss and AP contributed to this report
Maybe because these "incidents" are...LIES???
Meanwhile....
9 Qassams Land in Southern Israel
Yeshiva students pelted by rocks in ancient Jewish Druze village of Peki'in
6 Qassams Fired at Western Negev
More tapes exists showing Egyptian complicity in Gaza smuggling
Warning! This is a high-volume ping list.
Turnabout is fair play?
More likely Hamas or Fatah trying to stir some crap. Either that or it never happened.
I won’t believe it until I’ve heard it from Green Helmet Guy and Flat Fatima.
They humiliated us. The called us schmucks.
Every time one of these “incidents” are reported by the usual suspects, I always wonder, “what did the whiners do to get their butts kicked in the first place.” Me thinks they are like the bully in school that hits someone, and when the person fights back, they go crying and squalling to teacher “whhhhhhhhaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhh, he hit me!”
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