Agencies-Gaza post
Settlers try to kidnap kid, demolish memorial in Hebron
Extremist Israeli settlers on Thursday attempted to kidnap a Palestinian kid near the town of Yatta, to the south of Hebron in the occupied West Bank, while another group assulated the memorial of martyr Sheikh Suleiman Al-Hathlin, east of the town, witnesses said.
Coordinator of the National Committee for the Resistance of the Apartheid Wall and Settlements in the area, Ratib al-Jabour, said that a massive group of rampaging settlers gathered near the town, attacked Palestinian residents and tried to kidnap a kid, but where fiercely confronted and thwarted by residents.
Jabour said that a group of settlers from the settlements of Ma’on and Karmiel, which are built on Palestinian citizens’ lands in Masafer Yatta area, brought bulldozers and embarked on the building of a settler-only road east of the town.
Meantime, the coordinator of the Protection and Resilience Committees in Masafer Yatta, Fuad Al-Amour, said that Israeli settlers demolish the memorial of Palestinan martyr Sheikh Suleiman Al-Hathlin, which was built by the families of Masafer Yatta and a number of foreign activists near the entrance to the village of Umm Al-Khair, east of Yatta, in honor of the the martyr.
Al-Hathalin dead on January 17 from a serious wound he sustained at the entrance to the village of Umm al-Khair in Masafer Yatta area, after being run over by an Israeli police vehicle on January 5.
Israeli settler violence is commonplace across the occupied West Bank, and is rarely prosecuted by the Israeli occupation authorities.
