More Palestinians killed, tens wounded in Israeli settlers attacks
The 22nd day of the al-Aqsa uprising witnessed further confrontations resulted in more killing and wounded among the Palestinians.
Palestinian man Zuheir al-Ardah ( 34) was killed in the confrontations with Israeli forces which took place between the Palestinians and the settlers to the east of Nablus, after his was fatally hit in his stomach.
News reports said that one Israeli settler was killed and two settlers and several Palestinians including one policeman were injured in fire exchange.
The situation developed into fierce confrontations and covered the city of Nablus, where three Israeli helicopters bombarded the Palestinians areas and this resulted in strong wounds among 15 Palestinians.
News reports said that confrontations were violent between the Palestinians and the Israeli settlers who started their aggressions on the Palestinian olive orchards.
Similar confrontations were held at al-Khudr village near Bethlehem in Ramullah and the surrounding area.
In Hebron ( al-Khalil) the funeral of a Palestinian from Beit Omar town changed into bloody confrontations during which three Palestinian youths were wounded.
In Jerusalem Palestinians opened fire on Israeli tanks stationed at the surrounding of " Geilo" settlement and opened fire against an Israeli barrier inside the city and the situation also developed to confrontations with the Israeli forces during which tens were wounded.
The Palestinians detonated an explosive against an Israeli on foot patrol near Tulkaram and the confrontations also moved to the cities of Ramullah, al-Beera and Gaza strip witnessed similar confrontations especially in Rafah where the Palestinians clashed with the Israeli army barriers, whose sources said it arrested 338 Palestinians during the confrontations which took place in Jerusalem and that those will be brought before the court on charges of taking part in the Intifada (uprising).
The village of Hawarah was converted into a ghost village because of the siege measures and despite the fact that the village is full of olive trees and its cultivation season has started yet the Israeli forces did not permit the Palestinians farmers from approaching their orchards.
Meantime, the Palestinian Centre for Human Rights reported that this afternoon, the Israeli occupation forces fired at a peaceful demonstration which was organized in Nablus in protest to the aggressive actions by the Israeli occupation forces and Jewish settlers, who fired at some Palestinians yesterday and killed Zahi Fathi El-Aaarda, 34 years old, by a bullet in the abdomen. In the clashes of this afternoon in Nablus, 4 Palestinian civilians were killed and 55 were wounded, 8 of whom are in a very critical condition, including the child Saead Tambour, 15 years old, who was wounded by a bullet in the head, and medical sources stated that he is clinically dead. The four martyrs of Nablus are: 1. Aadnan Khairi Aaziz Asaad, 21 years old, wounded by a Dum-Dum bullet in the head; 2. Eissa Abdullah Shteiwi, 32 years old, wounded by a medium bullet in the heart; 3. Feras Khalil Mustafa Zeid, 26 years old, wounded by a medium bullet in the chest; and 4. Amjad Ahmed Abu Eissa, 32 years old, wounded by a bullet in the chest.
This afternoon too, in the town of Salfit the Israeli occupation forces fired at Palestinian demonstrators and killed the child Allaa Bassam Abdullah Bani Nemreh, 15 years old, by a bullet in the head. In Ramallah and Al-Bireh, the Israeli occupation forces shot dead Thaear Ali Daud Moaalla, 20 years old, from the refugee camp of Al-Amaari, by a bullet in the head, and wounded dozens of civilians with live ammunition and rubber-coated metal bullets.
In Qalqilya, the Israeli occupation forces shot at Palestinian demonstrators and killed the child Samer Talal Al-Oweisi, 16 years old, by a bullet in the chest, and wounded dozens. In Tulkarm, the child Mohammed Aaadel Ibrahim Abu Tahoun, 16 years old, was killed by two bullets in the neck and the chest fired by the Israeli occupation forces.
This evening, the Israeli combat helicopters shelled some houses and an electricity generator in Beit Sahour. As a result, electricity was cut off in some quarters of the city. No casualties have been reported so far.
In the town of Rafah, clashes between Palestinian demonstrators and the Israeli occupation forces are still continuous.