IOF troops deliberately break the limbs of 3 Palestinian workers

[ 30/12/2009 - 10:02 AM ]

BETHLEHEM, (PIC)-- Four Palestinian workers from the districts of Jenin and Tulkarem were beaten up by Israeli occupation forces (IOF) near Walaja village, Bethlehem district, on Tuesday. Local sources said that the workmen were trying to enter Palestine occupied in 1948 through this village since the separation wall had closed all entrances near their districts in northern West Bank, but they were spotted and chased by the soldiers. Eyewitnesses said that the soldiers were not content with beating the laborers but deliberately broke the limbs of three of them and arrested one of them. They said that two were hospitalized in Beit Jala for treatment. The IOF soldiers at an early hour on Wednesday rounded up four citizens in a number of West Bank areas at the pretext they were wanted for interrogation. The Jewish settlers, for their part, assaulted two Palestinian shepherds north of Al-Khalil and shot at and wounded a Palestinian youth in Al-Khalil city on Tuesday. Medical sources said that the young man's injuries were "moderate", noting that the shepherd was rearing his sheep near the settlement of Bat Ayin when a settler told him to leave the land and when he refused the settler shot him.