Thursday, October 02, 2008

Palestine: Settler violence on the rise

Local daily Ha'aretz has quoted an Israeli military commander as saying that violence against Palestinians and Israeli soldiers by extremist Jewish settlers in the West Bank is on the rise.

"There has been a rise in Jewish violence in Judea and Samaria," said Major General Gadi Shamni, head of the Central Command of Israel Defense Forces (IDF), which is responsible for the entire West Bank.

"In the past, only a few dozen individuals took part in such activity, but today that number has grown into the hundreds. That's a very significant change. These hundreds are engaged in conspiratorial actions against Palestinians and the security forces," he added, stressing that "it's a very grave phenomenon."
Published by Mike Hitchen, Mike Hitchen Consulting