Settlers attack Chilean delegation in Al-Khalil

Settlers attack Chilean delegation in Al-Khalil

Gaza Interior Ministry

A group of Zionist settlers attacked, on Tuesday, the Chilean Parliamentary solidarity delegation during its visit to the old town and the Ibrahimi Mosque in Al-Khalil, south of the West Bank.

The settlers attacked the Chilean delegation verbally while it was in Sahla region near the Ibrahimi Mosque, accompanied by Al-Khalil Governor Kamel Hamid and a number of public figures and officials in the province.

Guarded by the police and the occupation army, the settlers also tried to prevent the delegation from visiting the region under the pretext 'it is Zionist land' and those who show solidarity to Palestinians are not allowed to enter it.

The Chilean parliamentary delegation responded to the settlers’ anti-Arab insults by chanting 'Freedom for Palestine and Palestinians'.

It is noted that about 400 settlers live in four outposts in the old town of Al-Khalil - 'Avraham Avinu' and 'Beit Hadassah' and 'Beit Romano' and 'Ramat Yishai'.
Moreover, the occupation authorities threatened to close ‘Zif’ school that serves a number of communities and hamlets near the town of Yatta south of Al-Khalil (West Bank).

Wajih Aladra, director of the school, explained in a press statement that the occupation forces told him, through the "civil administration", that they are going to close the school under the pretext that its students have thrown stones at settlers' vehicles on the bypass road, which is near the school and which the settlers use to cross.
Aladra pointed out that 400 male and female students attend the school, which is the only one in the region, and that if the occupation carries out this threat, the students will be deprived of completing their education.
25/4/2012

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