OCCUPIED
JERUSALEM, October 30 (IslamOnline & News Agencies) – Three
Israeli settlers were killed late Tuesday, October 29, by a Palestinian
who infiltrated the Jewish settlement of Hermesh in the northern West
Bank and was later shot dead, according to a new toll issued Wednesday,
October 30, by Israeli military sources.
The
Palestinian crept into the settlement and opened fire on two girls,
reported Agence France-Presse (AFP). Both of them died of their wounds.
A
woman who heard the shooting came out of her house and shot at the
Palestinian with a pistol, but he got away and entered another house
where he shot at a couple, killing the woman and wounding her husband.
Settlers
and soldiers who arrived on the scene shot the Palestinian who was armed
with an automatic weapon, the sources said.
Hermesh,
where some 300 Jews live, lies between the Palestinian towns of Jenin
and
Nablus
.
It
was the second attack on a
West Bank
settlement in 48 hours. On Sunday, a resistance fighter at the large
settlement of Ariel killed three Israeli soldiers as well as the bomber.
Palestinian
factions have in the past threatened several times to attack the
colonial settlements if there were not dismantled.
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A wounded Israeli is rushed to hospital in Hadera
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About
200 Jewish colonial settlements have been set up in the
West Bank
and Gaza Strip since
Israel
seized the territories in the 1967
Middle East
war. All the settlements, according to U.N. resolutions are considered
illegal. Some 60 so-called “rogue” outposts, often just a cluster of
caravans, have popped up in recent years.
According
to a report issued in June by Israeli peace group “Peace Now”, ever
since Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon came into power in February
2001, Jewish settlers in the
West Bank
have built 44 new sites.
For
more than thirty years, the creation of Jewish settlements has been a
central component of
Israel
’s effort to consolidate control over the Gaza Strip and the
West Bank
, including
East Jerusalem
.
Israeli
settlement construction has served not only to facilitate territorial
acquisition and to justify the continuing presence of Israeli armed
forces on Palestinian lands, but also to limit the territorial
contiguity of areas populated by Palestinians and thereby to preclude
the establishment of a viable independent Palestinian state.
Israel
’s settlement policy and practices clearly contravene international
law. Article 49, paragraph 6 of the Fourth Geneva Convention states that
“the occupying power shall not deport or transfer parts of its own
civilian population into the territories it occupies.”
Moreover,
the confiscation of land for settlement construction is in violation of
the rules contained in the 1907 Hague Regulations protecting public and
private property in occupied territory.
Settlement
activity is also fundamentally incompatible with the concept of a
“just and lasting peace” called for in United Nations Security
Council Resolution 242.
In
Resolution 465, which was unanimously adopted, the Security Council made
clear that “Israel’s policy and practices of settling parts of its
population and new immigrants” in the occupied territories not only
violate the Fourth Geneva Convention, but also constitute “a serious
obstruction to achieving a comprehensive, just and lasting peace in the
Middle East.”
The
Security Council called upon Israel to “dismantle the existing
settlements and in particular to cease, on an urgent basis, the
establishment, construction of planning of settlements in the Arab
territories occupied since 1967, including Jerusalem.”
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