»Settler attacks multiply in Tel Rumeida- Hebron – IMEMC News

Israeli settlers attempt to expand their settlements and physically attack them

On Wednesday, July 4, 2018, well-known extremist settler Baroch Marzel set up a tent in the Tel Rumeida district of downtown Hebron. The tent was next to the house of Radi Abu Aysha. Other settlers came to the tent in support of Marzel, causing the impossibility for neighboring Palestinians to leave their homes. Israeli forces removed the tents and settlers left the area that night.

The same day in Tel Rumeida, the settlers physically badaulted Abed Nidal al-Fakhouri. Israeli forces arrived at the scene of the attack and attacked al-Fakhouri and detained him.

The inhabitants report that settlers from the Ramat Yishai settlement in Tel Rumeida tried to build a new road on the neighboring land. month. They damaged part of a stone wall on the ground. Eyewitness Mohammed Abu Markhiyya said the Israeli police had not tried to stop the expansion of vigilante settlements.

Imad Abu Shamsiyya, coordinator of Hebron human rights groups, says the settlers have escalated their attacks against Palestinian residents of the city center. In the occupied Israeli city center of Hebron, five small settlements that house between 500 and 1,000 Israelis continue to spread over Palestinian lands and properties. A series of discriminatory policies and practices has transformed the region, home to 55,000 Palestinians, into a ghetto ruled by an apartheid system that benefits Israeli settlers. Local and local movements, political parties and activists have struggled to end racist domination of the city for years.

This unfair system received a level of permanence when the Palestinian Authority and the Israeli government agreed to divide the city center of Hebron. and signed the Hebron Protocol of 1997. The agreement divides the city into H1 (the west side of Hebron which is under the control of the Palestinian Authority) and H2 (the area between Hebron and Kiryat Arba remains under total Israeli control.)

The presence of settlers in the city only increased the Hebron Protocol. Palestinians describe the dominant philosophy behind these policies as "Rewarding the criminal, punishing the victim."

Ahmad Jaradat is the Senior Project Coordinator of the Alternative Information Center (AIC).

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