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Israeli settlers kidnap, manhandle Palestinian boy in Jerusalem

January 25, 2007

Occupied Jerusalem - A group of fanatic Israeli settlers in the occupied city of Jerusalem have kidnapped and manhandled Palestinian teenager in the village of Hazma, north of the occupied city of Jerusalem Tuesday night before fleeing the place and leaving him unconscious, Palestinian sources revealed.

The sources quoted Palestinian eyewitnesses as affirming that three armed Israeli settlers abducted Palestinian boy Rafat Sameh Al-Khateeb, 16, who was visiting his relatives along the road connecting his village with Jericho city, and led him to the nearby Maale Adomim settlement, the biggest Israeli colony in the West Bank, before attacking him with sharp objects that left him unconscious.

The attackers left the place and left the boy bleeding for few hours before a Palestinian passersby spotted the boy and rushed him to a local hospital, the sources furthermore revealed.

More Israeli aggressions against Palestinian citizens were also reported as many Palestinian prisoners in the Hawara detention center affirmed that they were tortured at the hands of their Israeli interrogators, adding that Israeli soldiers in the detention camp attempted to take off the scarf of a Palestinian female detainee.

Lawyers from the Palestinian prisoner club affirmed that Palestinian detainee Ruba Mahmoud Helmi Al-Khateeb, 20, of Salfeet city, north of the West Bank, was arrested two weeks ago at the Beit Eba checkpoint at the hands of the IOF troops manning the barrier before being led blind-folded to the Hawara detention.

Muslim cemeteries weren’t spared Israeli aggressions, as fanatic Israeli settlers desecrated the town's only cemetery in Awarta town, north of Nablus city. Headstones were broken and graves vandalized.

Palestinian residents who witnessed the sacrilegious act denounced the act, asserting that the settlers were escorted by large numbers of IOF troops and military vehicles.

On Wednesday, Israeli occupation police arrested Palestinian citizen Luay Mousa Hudaib, 16, at his house in the old town of Jerusalem city for scuffling with Israeli settler.

Despite the fact that the boy proved that the settler attacked and insulted him, and that he was the victim rather than the aggressor, Israeli police refused to release him on bail.

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