Extremist Jewish Settlers are Out Of Control

More violent than ever: Review of a Palestinian week, filled with settlers' attacks
(6 Dec) Ongoing violent attacks perpetrated by extremist Jewish settlers against Palestinians civilians and property has reached an unprecedented level in the West Bank. The escalation of hatred and racist aggression targeting Palestinian civilians all across the West Bank, including women and children has led to this retrospective review of the events of last week.
http://www.palestin emonitor. org/spip/spip. php?article719

Palestinians protest rampage by Hebron settlers
(5 Dec) Palestinians protested on Friday against a rampage by settlers in response to Israel's eviction of squatters from a disputed building in Hebron, and Israel deployed extra forces to contain the unrest. Palestinian youths burned tyres in Hebron and threw stones at Israel Defense Forces soldiers at a checkpoint, who responded with tear gas and rubber bullets, witnesses said. Violence spread to another West Bank town where Palestinians said settlers torched olive orchards, a day after settlers shot and wounded three Palestinians in anger at the removal of Israeli families from a building occupied in defiance of a court order.
http://www.haaretz. com/hasen/ spages/1044015. html

15 residents wounded in Hebron
(5 Dec) Israeli sources reported that Israeli settlers attacked dozens of Palestinian residents in the southern West Bank city of Hebron and opened fire at them wounding fifteen residents, including a father and his child. The settlers also broke into more than ten Palestinian homes causing excessive damage. The Israeli army fully sealed off Hebron and barred the media from entering while the settles continued their attacks against the residents and their homes. The settlers also attacked Israeli soldiers and policemen. The settlers damaged and set ablaze a number of Palestinian homes, vehicles and olive trees.
http://www.imemc. org/article/ 57916

Lie to us, but do not ignore us: settler taped shooting Palestinians point blank
(5 Dec) A video of an Israeli settler shooting two Palestinians at close range was made public by the Israeli human rights group B'tselem on Thursday. The sounds and images of a machine-gun waving settler were transmitted to international, local and Israeli TV stations. The footage showed a middle-aged Israeli from one of the illegal settlements inside the Palestinian city of Hebron firing at 40-year-old Husni Matariya h at point blank range. The bullet hit the left side of Matariah's chest. The settler then shot Matariah's 65-year-old father Abed Al-Hai in the hand...Although his crime was cruel and brutal, it is not out of the ordinary in Palestine for settler mobs to decide that they will exact some sort of punishment against Palestinians. Indeed, such acts have been going on for decades.
http://www.maannews .net/en/ index.php?opr= ShowDetails&ID= 33759

Hebron shooting: Two settlers turn themselves in
(6 Dec) Two residents of Kiryat Arba suspected of firing at Palestinians during riots in Hebron Thursday turned themselves in to police Saturday. Two Palestinians sustained wounds in the incident. The two suspects, men in their 40s and 50s, say they faced life danger during the incident and were scared of being lynched by Palestinians. The two men say they fired as an act of self-defense. Palestinian residents of Hebron told Ynet that the shooting occurred near Kiryat Arba. Settlers were said to have fired in the direction of the Sa'afin residence, where two family members were injured. A B'tselem investigator who reportedly witnessed the incident said a number of settlers had fired in the air, but one aimed towards the house and injured the Palestinians inside it.
http://www.ynetnews .com/ articles/0,7340, L-3634252, 00. html

Video: Settlers filmed shooting at Palestinians turn themselves in
(6 Dec) Two Kiryat Arba residents, suspected of shooting at Palestinians following the forced eviction of settlers from the "House of Contention" in Hebron on Thursday, turned themselves in to the authorities on Saturday. The two have been transferred to the custody of the Hebron District police for questioning after they were seen apparently shooting at Palestinians at close range in a film shot by the Israeli human rights group B'Tselem.
http://www.haaretz. com/hasen/ spages/1044061. html

PA police: Settlers set fire to Palestinian home in Hebron
(6 Dec) Jewish settlers torched a rooftop enclosure of a Palestinian man's home in the West Bank city of Hebron on Saturday, a Palestinian police spokesman said. The Hebron resident, Nidal Awawi, told Reuters a room he had built on his roof was blackened and destroyed by a fire set off before dawn. There were no casualties, he said. A spokesman for Palestinian police, Ramadan Awad, blamed the arson on Jewish settlers he said w ere spotted fleeing the scene as flames engulfed the building. Awawi's house is surrounded on three sides by settler homes.
http://www.haaretz. com/hasen/ spages/1043992. html