Bethlehem / exclusive / PNN – A tour bus and four cars full of Israeli settlers arrived in Beit Sahour around noon on Friday.
They have been coming weekly to the Bethlehem District in an attempt to overtake the site of an evacuated military post and turn it into yet another settlement to link Har Homa and Efrat Settlements built on Bethlehem lands.
Eyewitnesses said that a group of nonviolent Palestinian demonstrators were there on the scene in Beit Sahour where a park has built and plans for a children’s hospital are in the works. A group of foreign supporters were there as well.
Two Israeli military jeeps forced the Palestinian and foreign group to “go back down to the park,” an eyewitness told PNN. "But then we went back up. The settlers were spray painting more things in Hebrew and English over what they have already been writing.” The slogans include racial slurs and claim this Palestinian "land belongs to the Jews.”
The eyewitnesses reporting on the spray painting said that it was difficult to get close to the settlers as the simple two military jeeps and eight to 10 soldiers were all that were called in to hold back the nonviolent Palestinian resistance.
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