Affrontements à Burin (Nablus) – juillet 2010

Settlers riot near Huwwara checkpoint

maannews.net

26/07/201

Nablus – Ma’an – Israeli residents of an illegal West Bank settlement rioted near the Huwwara checkpoint in Nablus on Monday, protesting a decision to demolish illegal structures, onlookers said.

Witnesses said Israeli forces closed the checkpoint in response and that dozens of Israeli policemen operating the West Bank were unable to disperse the riot, diverting traffic to the nearby Awarta commercial checkpoint.

The Israeli settlers were protesting the razing of illegally-installed mobile homes in the nearby Yitzhar settlement, setting fire to Palestinian olive trees in an apparent « price tag » reprisal for the demolitions. Palestinian fire crews deployed at the site to contain and extinguish the fire.

An Israeli military representative said, however, that the checkpoint was not closed. According to Israeli online news site Ynet, the rioters attempted to break through the checkpoint.

Palestinian Authority settlement affairs chief in the northern West Bank Ghassan Doughlas said some settlers opened fire at Palestinian homes in the nearby Burin village.

Child, foreign activists hurt in IOF quelling of peaceful march

ikhwanweb.com

Sunday, July 25,2010

Six civilians including a child and foreign activists were hurt on Saturday when Israeli occupation forces (IOF) violently dispersed a peaceful demonstration in Irak Burin village, Nablus district.

NABLUS, Six civilians including a child and foreign activists were hurt on Saturday when Israeli occupation forces (IOF) violently dispersed a peaceful demonstration in Irak Burin village, Nablus district.

Local sources said that IOF soldiers fired a big number of gas bombs at the demonstrators causing breathing problems for many of them while a young man was directly hit with a gas canister.

They said that the soldiers savagely beat up the 13-year-old child Baha’a Qadus, adding that he was near the scene of the confrontation and did not take part in it.

The IOF command declared the village a closed military zone and blocked traffic in and out of it, which is the usual weekly practice, to prevent foreign activists and reporters from entering the village and covering the peaceful march organized each Saturday against IOF confiscation of village land.

IOF closes villages in Nablus, attacks citizens

paltelegraph.com

Saturday, 24 July 2010

Nablus, July 24, (Pal Telegraph) Israeli occupation forces closed the main entrance to the village of Iraq Burin, in Nablus, in the West Bank and arrested two youths at the entrance.

A member of the Village Council, Youssef Hafez, confirmed that the Israeli occupation forces stationed at the entrance to the village detained citizens Adham Kamal Qadus (20 years) and the citizen Nasr David Qadus (22 years).

He pointed out that the villagers were preparing to start the weekly march towards the threatened with confiscation lands of farmers that are near the settlement of Brakha, adjacent to the village.

The Israeli occupation forces closed the village of Iraq Burin, more than two months and prevented citizens from non-residents of the village entry, also prevented the entry of foreign journalists and peace activists to join the weekly march.

Palestinians say settlers attack Burin village as ‘price tag’

Israel News

07.26.10

Palestinians reported that a resident of Burin village near Nablus was injured when dozens of settlers stormed the village, claiming it was a ‘price tag’ reprisal for the demolition of illegal structures in the Givat Ronen outpost on Monday.

According to the report, the settlers tried to break through the nearby Hawara checkpoint, which was closed to keep them out of Palestinian territory. (Ali Waked)