(Israel) Palestinians, U.S. citizen complain of settler violence

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A request to moderators: This article involves an attack on an American citizen while in Israel. Many American citizens and other foreign nationals have been harmed by the violence on both sides. It is my belief that in matters of U.S. foreign policy or incidents where U.S. citizens are harmed or killed the information should be easily available to readers of Democratic Underground.

From Ha'aretz, Israel's oldest and arguably most-respected newspaper (bold is mine):

Several Palestinians and an American volunteer in the West Bank yesterday filed complaints with the police, accusing settlers of violence toward Palestinians in the Hebron area on Saturday, after three people were wounded in two separate incidents.

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In the second incident, which took place Saturday afternoon, an American volunteer assisting Palestinians in Hebron as part of the Tel Rumeida Project said he was attacked by a group of about 20 Israeli children and youths. He said they threw stones at him, kicked him and spat at him. He was taken to a Hebron hospital shortly after the incident and underwent additional tests at Ichilov Hospital in Tel Aviv yesterday. He was hit in the head and doctors are concerned he may have a concussion.

The volunteer said he ran from his assailants to a nearby Israel Defense Forces post, but charged that the soldiers on duty refused to assist him. However, IDF sources said the soldiers reached the site of the attack without being summoned and then dispersed the settlers. Police said they showed him mug shots but that the volunteer was unable to identify the people he said had attacked him.

Read the entire article here.

PB