Jewish Settlers Attack Palestinian Village

RAMALLAH (NNN-AGENCIES) -- Jewish settlers attacked on Monday the Palestinian-inhabited village of Aseelah Al-Gabliah south of Nablus, sources in the village said.

The settlers surrounded three houses in the village hurling stones at the Palestinians' residences, shattering windows, they said.

Residents of the village resisted the attackers throwing stones at them.

In GAZA, a Palestinian child was severely wounded and her father injured in an Israeli airstrike that targeted a house in Zaytoun neighborhood in Gaza city at dawn Sunday, according to a WAFA correspondent.

Israeli warplanes targeted a house with three missiles, destroying parts of the house and setting it on fire, as well as damaging neighboring houses.

The father was reported to be in moderate condition.

Israeli artillery also shelled an agricultural area in Johr al-Deek, southeast of Gaza city. No injuries were reported.

In JERUSALEM, Israeli forces Sunday severely beat a Palestinian child, 8, in the courtyard of the Damascus Gate, one of the main gates of the Old City of Jerusalem, according to WAFA correspondent.

He said that the incident aroused anger among Palestinians present at the scene, who responded by attacking the soldiers, leading to confrontations between them and the Israeli soldiers; two Palestinians were injured during the confrontations.

He added that a large Israeli force arrived at the scene, imposed a military cordon around it and closed the road leading to the old city of Jerusalem and the courtyard of the Damascus Gate.

Soldiers began chasing Palestinian youths and arrested one of them.

In the WEST BANK, Israeli forces Sunday arrested six Palestinian from the southern West Bank city of Bethlehem and the northern West Bank city of Nablus, according to security sources.

Sources said that Israeli soldiers stormed al-Dheisheh, a refugee camp south of Bethlehem, raided and searched Palestinian residents’ houses and arrested four Palestinians, including three youths.

Soldiers also arrested two Palestinian youths, 18, 24, in Awarta, a town east of Nablus after raiding and searching several Palestinians houses there. -- NNN-AGENCIES