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Israeli security forces dismantle Palestinian
protest camp
Sunday February 03, 2013 08:58:13 AM,
IANS
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Ramallah/Jerusalem: Israeli security forces used force Saturday to disperse
Palestinian activists attempting to set up a camp in West Bank in
protest of Israeli expansion of settlement, witnesses and medics
said, reported Xinhua.
Dozens of Israeli soldiers used tear gas and stun grenades
Saturday afternoon to disperse dozens of Palestinian activists who
were erecting a "tent village" near the West Bank village of Burin
to protest Israeli plans to confiscate the land for settlement
expansions, witnesses said.
Medics said more than 20 activists fainted after inhaling tear gas
and were treated at the scene.
The activists pitched eight tents and decorated them with
Palestinian flags in the mountainous area in south of Nablus,
which the Israeli army has announced as a closed zone months ago.
They named the tent camp "Al-Nawateer", and said 80 percent of its
land was used or allocated for the use of Jewish settlement
activities.
Clashes erupted as Israeli soldiers dismantled the tents.
According to the Times of Israel website, settlers nearby were
hurling stones at the protesters. Israeli website Ynet said a
settler sustained light injuries and a Palestinian sustained
injuries the severity of which is unclear.
The Israeli Defense Forces spokesperson unit is yet to confirm the
details of the report.
Five Palestinians were arrested during clashes with Israeli
forces, local sources reported.
This is the fourth camp of this kind erected by Palestinian
protesters in the past month against Israel's expansion of
settlements in the West Bank.
In January, Israeli security forces took down a protest camp north
of Jerusalem after the Civil Administration, the authority ruling
civil matters in the West Bank territories, issued an eviction
order for it.
Two other camps followed in the area of Beit Iksa in recent weeks,
but were immediately taken down by the Israeli security forces.
Ghassan Daghlas, head of the Palestinian popular resistance
movement, said 400 activists held Saturday a sit-in in the area,
adding that the Israeli army intensified its presence there,
blocking roads leading to the tent village.
The village is located in Area B of the West Bank, where Israel
retains security control while the Palestinian National
Authority's (PNA) mandate is limited to administrative issues.
The activists started building tent villages since the beginning
of 2013, in a bid to draw attention to the confiscation of lands
before Israel starts any activity on the lands.
On Thursday, an investigation committee formed by the United
Nations Human Rights Council called on Israel to stop settlement
expansions in the lands it occupied in 1967. The investigators
urged Israel to evacuate its settlements in the West Bank.
The settlement activities caused Israeli-Palestinian peace talks
to break down in 2010.
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