| Submit your comments on this article | |
| Israel-Palestine-Jordan | |
| At least 16 Palestinians hurt in clash with Bat Ayin settlers | |
| 2009-04-08 | |
| A week after an ax-wielding terrorist infiltrated the West Bank settlement of Bat Ayin killing a young boy and wounding another boy, at least sixteen Palestinians were wounded in a clash with Bat Ayin settlers. From the initial investigation into the incident it seems that the Palestinians began the violence when they attacked the settlers, who were walking from Bat Ayin to the cemetery at the nearby settlement of Kfar Etzion on Wednesday morning, Army Radio reported. The Palestinians, however, claimed that the settlers entered their village shooting in the air and damaging their property. IDF soldiers arrived at the scene in order to break up the clash. However, the Palestinians said that the soldiers did not prevent the settlers from firing their weapons. The IDF said that due to massive stone hurling, the soldiers used riot gear to stop the clash, including rubber bullets. But when the vioelnce continued the troops were ordered to shoot at the legs of some of the stone hurlers.
| |
| Posted by:g(r)omgoru |