Home Invading Israeli Soldiers Kill Woman

May 13 & 14, 2005

Home Invading Israeli Soldiers Kill Palestinian Woman

Brutal Young Settlers’ Savage Assault on 70-year-old Man

Home Invading Israeli Soldiers Kill Palestinian Woman

The Wafa news agency reports medical sources in Hebron confirming the death of Widad al Qa’oud, 57, of injuries after a violent Israeli assault on her brother’s home around midnight on Thursday. The soldiers banged on the door of the house in the old city neighbourhood of Al-Karteena after hurling stones at it. As Widad tried to open the door one of the soldiers slammed it into her so violently that she suffered critical injuries to her head and chest. She lost consciousness almost immediately and died from internal haemorrhaging within an hour of the attack and the Red Crescent transferred her body to the Hebron government hospital.

Widad‘s son, Mahmoud Abu Zahara, said that he intends to file charges against the soldiers for his mother's death. Widad was buried at the al-Shuhada cemetery in the city on Saturday, with hundreds of residents attending her funeral. They chanted slogans against the Occupation, against Israel’s Wall and against the continual Israeli military assaults on the Palestinian people.

Brutal Young Settlers’ Savage Assault on 70-year-old Man

Sameeh Mustafa Hamdan, 70, from the village of Salem near Nablus, suffered severe bruising to his face and other parts of his body, as well as a fractured left hand, when a gang of four young Israelis from the Jewish settlement of Alone Moreh attacked him. At the time of the assault Hamdan was making his way to his field near the village. "The settlers hurled stones at me and clubbed me, I passed out and only woke up when a resident came to my rescue. The man came to me and called my son, then they took me to a hospital in Nablus". Last year, Hamdan was attacked and injured by settlers in the same area.

Zionism in practice

Israel’s Daily Toll on Palestinian Life, Limb, Liberty and Property

[Source of statistics: Palestinian Monitoring Group]

Annexation Wall Building: 23 sites

Attacks: 15 – in Occupied Palestine the following were some of the people and areas that came under Israeli fire:

Khan Yunis –

The Israeli Army fired a stun grenade at Palestinian houses in the An Namsawi neighbourhood at

1:05am.

People’s homes in the West Khan Yunis refugee camp on three separate occasions.

Rafah –

The area surrounding Salah ad Din gate (twice).

People’s homes in the Zu’rub neighbourhood of the Rafah refugee camp.

Palestinian houses in the area of Ureibeh.

Northern Gaza – in the northeast of the town of Beit Hanun at 11:15pm.

Deaths: 1

Hebron – 57-year-old Palestinian lady, Widad al Qa’oud, dies at the hands of Israeli soldiers. See ‘Home Invading Israeli Soldiers Kill Palestinian Woman’, above.

Destruction of property: 3

Detentions: 10

Home invasions and occupation: Numerous

Bethlehem – at 10:30pm, the Israelis raided the town of Tuqu and invaded a house, detaining the residents.

Hebron –

The Israeli Army raided the village of Rabud and invaded three houses, detaining the residents.

The town of Dura was raided and a home invaded, with the occupants held against their will by Israeli forces.

Also see Deaths above.

Injuries: 2

Medical obstruction: 0

Physical assaults: 4

Nablus –

Israeli troops stationed along the Wadi al Badhan road broke the arm of a Palestinian Police officer, Mahmoud Yousef Ishtayyeh, while savagely beating him.

Occupation forces positioned at the Huwara checkpoint severely beat a Palestinian, Nidhal Jum’ah Dweikat.

Also see Settler violence below.

Prisoners taken: 3

Raids: 27

Tulkarem –

In a raid on the village of An Nazla al Wusta at

11:25pm, invading Israeli forces hit a vehicle belonging to a villager, causing severe damage.

At

11:45, the Israeli Army raided and patrolled the village of Shufa.

The Israeli Army raided and patrolled the town of Deir al Ghusun at

midnight.

Nablus – at 1:35am, Occupation forces rampaged through the city, shooting randomly and indiscriminately as they roamed the streets.

Bethlehem – at 10:35pm, Israeli Special Forces, in an unmarked vehicle, raided and roamed the streets of the city.

Settler violence: 5

Tulkarem –

A gang of ten Israeli settlers attempted to raid Area (A) in the town of Kafr Rumman but were successfully resisted by Palestinian security forces when Occupation forces refrained from intervening.

Israeli settlers set fire to crops on Palestinian agricultural land belonging to the village of Ramin.

Nablus – an Israeli settler mob set fire to Palestinian olive trees north of the village of Salim and beat a 70-year-old man, Sameeh Khalil Hamdan, so savagely he had to be admitted to hospital.

Hebron – at 10:30pm, Israeli settlers in the old city stoned and injured a 16-year-old Palestinian girl, Nisreen an Najjar.

Times indicated in red contribute to the sleep deprivation suffered by Palestinian children.

Zionism in principle

"When we have settled the land, all the Arabs will be able to do about it will be to scurry around like drugged cockroaches in a bottle."

Raphael Eitan

Chief of Staff of the Israeli Defence Forces,

New York Times, 14 April 1983.

Mofaz: Disengagement from Gaza Helps Israel Keep Jerusalem and Settlement Blocks

The Israeli Army Minister Shaul Mofaz said on Wednesday that the planned Israeli disengagement from Gaza Strip this year would help to define the eastern borders of Israel with the West Bank. The Israeli daily, Yedeot Ahranot, reported the Minister as saying that Israeli disengagement from the Gaza Strip would allow Israel to control the large settlement blocks in the West Bank and establish Jerusalem as the "undivided capital of Israel." Mofaz went further, saying that the settlers of the West Bank and Gaza would in the future be able to say that they helped to define the eastern borders of Israel." Mofaz also reiterated his criticism of the Palestinian National Authority, headed by Mahmoud Abbas, that it "did not control the security situation on the ground."

The Israeli Prime Minister, Ariel Sharon, has already asserted at a meeting with US President George Bush on April 11 that Israel intended to keep control over the large settlement blocks in the West Bank in any forthcoming agreement with the Palestinians. Sharon must believe that ‘negotiations’ under the repressive heel of the Occupation will achieve for Israel all of its admitted territorial ambitions.

Shaul Mofaz said on Wednesday that razing the homes of Jewish settlers to be evacuated from Gaza was unnecessary and would endanger the lives of soldiers by dragging out the withdrawal. Palestinian officials want Israel to demolish the houses before leaving because, they say, the suburban-style settler homes with yards and gardens are unsuitable for overcrowded Gaza. High-rise apartments would better serve the people of the Gaza Strip, a small coastal area with 1.3 million Palestinians, whose population growth rate of around 3.8 per cent is among the highest in the world.

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