Morning Star.png Settlers Firebomb Palestinian Villages James Tweedie, The Morning Star, London, 19 October 2015 Hundreds of Israeli settlers attacked Palestinian villages with petrol bombs on Saturday night as the Israeli crackdown escalated. The attackers, from the illegal Israeli settlement of Kiryat Arba, targeted the Palestinian villages of Wad al-Haseen and Wad al-Nasara, Ma'an news reported. Another settler firebomb attack in July killed 18-month-old boy Ali Dawabsheh and his parents, leaving his brother Ahmad fighting for his life as an orphan. Meanwhile, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowed to crack down on an Arab political party yesterday as police walled off Palestinian and Israeli districts of Jerusalem. Police spokeswoman Luba Samri said a barrier of concrete slabs had been erected by crane between the Palestinian neighbourhood of Jabal Mukaber and the Jewish area of Armon Hanatziv for "security reasons," without elaborating. Mr Netanyahu said his government would seize the funds of the Islamic Movement in Israel, which puts up candidates as part of the United Arab List. The Likud party prime minister had previously accused the movement, founded in 1971, of inciting a wave of stabbing attacks by young Palestinians on Israeli citizens in Jerusalem and elsewhere. But yesterday he said the government would take measures against the Islamic Movement and "particularly its financial sources." On Saturday the International Committee of the Red Cross urged the Israeli government to immediately halt plans for the punitive destruction of six Palestinian homes in the West Bank in retaliation for knife attacks. On the same day Israeli forces killed four more Palestinians, raising the recent death toll to 48, of whom eight have been Israelis. The new wave of protest has been sparked by Israeli moves to build a Jewish prayer centre at the Wailing Wall, part of the al-Aqsa mosque compound on the Temple Mount, which is administered by Jordanian authorities. But Mr Netanyahu claimed yesterday: "Israel is not the problem at the Temple Mount, Israel is the solution." Lebanese Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah called the clashes a "renewed intifada," describing it as the hope for salvation for the Palestinians. Pope Francis said he was following "the situation of strong tension and violence afflicting the Holy Land" with great concern. He said the moment called for "much courage and much strength of spirit to say 'no' to hatred and revenge" and seek peace instead. US Secretary of State John Kerry will visit Israel this week for talks with the government and the Palestinian Authority. From: http://www.morningstaronline.co.uk/a-190b-Israel-Settlers-firebomb-Palestini an-villages#.ViRs8X4rK00 -- -- NEW!!!! SSN FORUM IS ON FACEBOOK!!!! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Swaziland Solidarity Network Forum Google Group. Visit the group home page at http://groups.google.com/group/sa-swaziland-solidarity-eom-forum for more options, pages and files. To post to the group, send email to sa-swaziland-solidarity-eom-forum@googlegroups.com or reply to this message. To unsubscribe, send email to sa-swaziland-solidarity-eom-forum-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Swaziland Solidarity Network Forum" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to sa-swaziland-solidarity-eom-forum+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
