(Ahlul Bayt News Agency) - Israeli occupation forces (IOF) and Jewish settlers demolished "Bab al-Horriya" village set up by Palestinian and foreign activists on lands threatened with confiscation near the village of Burin, south of Nablus, on Saturday morning.Eyewitnesses told the PIC that the Israeli soldiers demolished more than 12 tents erected by the activists this morning and used force to suppress the activists and the journalists.The soldiers fired tear gas, rubber bullets and stun grenades towards the activists, while the settlers stormed the village of Burin and attacked civilian houses.Israeli settlers fired live bullets at the Palestinians. The citizen Zakariya Al-Najjar, 16, was hit in his thigh and was transferred to a hospital in Nablus.Around 300 militants and supporters from across the West Bank set up 12 tents on the lands threatened with confiscation in Burin village, adjacent to the Jewish settlement of Bracha.In another context, Jewish settlers attacked, this afternoon, vehicles of Palestinian citizens near the Israeli settlement of Yitzhar, on the road between Nablus and Ramallah.End item/ 149
1 February 2013 - 20:30
News ID: 387240
Israeli occupation forces (IOF) and Jewish settlers demolished "Bab al-Horriya" village set up by Palestinian and foreign activists on lands threatened with confiscation near the village of Burin, south of Nablus, on Saturday morning.