They poison Palestinian babies to death, while all the while Jewish fanatics build their illegal settlements on occupied Palestinian land, and carry out a terror campaign against the Palestinian’s.
When will the world start taking action against these terrorists and murderers?
Baby dies as Israel reimposes curfew
A 14-month-old Palestinian baby died yesterday, apparently overcome by tear gas fired by Israeli soldiers reimposing a curfew in a crowded Palestinian market area in the divided city of Hebron, doctors and witnesses said. The Israeli military said it was checking the report.
Also yesterday, four people were killed in Gaza City when an Israeli helicopter fired a rocket at a car, paramedics said. One car was demolished and another damaged in the attack, in the Sheik Radwan neighbourhood. The identities of the dead were not immediately known.
The baby’s death came as an Israeli opposition leader, Yossi Sarid, labelled Jewish settlers in Hebron “the ugliest stain on the Zionist enterprise” and described the West Bank town - where 500 Jewish settlers guarded by Israeli soldiers live among 130,000 Palestinians - as hell. “Hebron has turned into hell, a security hell, a political hell and, more than anything, an ethical hell,” Mr Sarid, leader of the Meretz party, said.
***The baby who died, Gharam Manaa, was in the market with her grandmother when the tear gas hit, witnesses said. She was taken by ambulance to Alia Hospital, but a doctor said she was dead on arrival. ***
Meanwhile, Jewish settlers inaugurated a new settlement on Wednesday a few kilometres north of Nablus. The Deputy Minister of Interior Security, Guidon Ezra, went to Rehalim to congratulate the settlers for “their determination in their struggle for the integrity of the land of Israel”, a spokesman said. Although the Government does not intend to recognise the wildcat settlement, which now has about 100 residents, it financed the construction work. “Rehalim is the symbol of our success at a time when there is talk of dismantling so-called illegal settlements,” he said, referring to a call by the Defence Minister, Binyamin Ben-Eliezer, for all outposts and wildcat settlements in the West Bank to be destroyed. In Ramallah a curfew was relaxed for the first time in 12 days on Wednesday. While Israeli forces kept the Palestinian leader, Yasser Arafat, confined in his headquarters, hundreds of thousands of Palestinians, exhausted by the longest unbroken curfew imposed on the city since June, flocked to buy food and supplies.
Fatima Musleh, 55, a mother of seven, ran out of food after the family ate its last box of lentils at the start of this week. “They [Israel] made us starve,” she said. “They kill our sons and demolish our houses. Why don’t they leave us alone?” Israel says it cannot curb militants responsible for bombings without curfews and blockades on access routes to West Bank towns. Palestinians call the measures collective punishment that has shattered their livelihoods.
