"They kept shooting even though he was calling out to them that he was an Israeli," she said, "and shouted obscenities at him." Alleged illegal activity by West Bank settlers has come into the public eye during the weekend, when clashes residents of the Havat Gilad illegal outpost and their supporters clashed with the IDF over the dismantlement of the outpost. Settlers who were evacuated from the outpost earlier in the week arrived at the site Thursday night, apparently after having learned that the IDF and police were planning
to tear down several prefabricated buildings still left there.
In another case allegedly connected to settler brutality, six Palestinian families on Friday set out from the tiny village of Hirbat Yanun, near the settlement of Itamar, leaving it completely abandoned. Sobbing as they filled a truck with furniture and piled themselves into dusty cars, members of the Sobih clan said they were fleeing the village - once home to 25 families - after four years of worsening attacks by settlers, who have set up illegal outposts on
nearby hilltops. The attacks have become increasingly frequent in recent months, they said. "Our life here is more bitter than hell," Kamal Sobih, a thin, bearded man of 40, said Friday. Groups of masked Jewish settlers have charged into the village, coming at night with dogs and horses, stealing sheep, hurling stones through windows and beating the men with fists and rifle butts, Palestinian residents said.
to tear down several prefabricated buildings still left there.
In another case allegedly connected to settler brutality, six Palestinian families on Friday set out from the tiny village of Hirbat Yanun, near the settlement of Itamar, leaving it completely abandoned. Sobbing as they filled a truck with furniture and piled themselves into dusty cars, members of the Sobih clan said they were fleeing the village - once home to 25 families - after four years of worsening attacks by settlers, who have set up illegal outposts on
nearby hilltops. The attacks have become increasingly frequent in recent months, they said. "Our life here is more bitter than hell," Kamal Sobih, a thin, bearded man of 40, said Friday. Groups of masked Jewish settlers have charged into the village, coming at night with dogs and horses, stealing sheep, hurling stones through windows and beating the men with fists and rifle butts, Palestinian residents said.