Clashes in West Bank after Israeli shot dead near holy site

haaretz.com

Dozens of masked Israeli youth hurl rocks at Palestinian village, try to torch houses, hours after man killed and three others wounded by Palestinian security forces following an unauthorized visit to Joseph’s Tomb.

By Chaim Levinson

Dozens of masked Israelis youth clashed with Palestinian in the West Bank village of Hawara on Sunday, hours after an Israeli was killed and three others wounded when Palestinian security forces opened fire on them near the holy site of Joseph’s Tomb.

The Israelis approached the village and began throwing stones at Palestinian vehicles, lightly wounding a child. The angry youth torched a car and tried to burn down a house, but were stopped after large security forces were deployed in the area.

The Israel Defense Forces closed off the village to traffic, prompting some of the youth to shout: « You helped the murderers. Take off your uniforms and come with us. »

Palestinian security forces shot at three cars that apparently tried to break through a roadblock near Joseph’s tomb, according to an initial investigation. Ben-Joseph Livnat, a 25-year-old father of four and nephew of Culture and Science Minister Limor Livnat, was killed in the shooting. Three other people were wounded, and are in light to serious conditions.

Livnat and the other three casualties were part of a group of some 15 worshipers who entered the site in three separate cars without military authorization. A Palestinian Authority representative said that the officer fired into the air because he believed that the group was acting suspiciously, but did not aim at the car.

« The main problem is that they [the Israelis] entered the city without coordination, » said Jibril al-Bakri, the Palestinian governor of Nablus. Read more…

Jewish Settlers Attack Quarry in Nablus, Burn Car in Hawara

wafa

24/4/2011 

NABLUS, April 24, 2011 (WAFA) – Jewish settlers Sunday attacked a quarry near Boreen, a village south of Nablus, and burned a car near Hawara, a village south of Nablus city.

Ghassan Daghlas, Palestinian official responsible for the settlement file in the northern West Bank, said that a group of settlers attacked a quarry south of Nablus, beat its workers and destroyed a number of its equipment.

Meanwhile, witnesses said that settlers burned a car on the road to Hawara village, near the cross road of Israeli Yitzhar settlement and dragged it into a nearby military camp.

~ par Alain Bertho sur 25 avril 2011.

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