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West Bank villager: Settlers went from house to house firing at random
By Yuval Azoulay, Haaretz Correspondent and The Associated Press
Tags: Palestinian, settlement 

A Palestinian infiltrator stabbed a 9-year-old settler in the West Bank outpost of Shalhevet early Saturday, sparking a settler rampage in the nearby Palestinian village Asira al-Kabaliya that left at least eight Palestinians wounded, two of them moderately.

The mayor of the village, Hosni Sharaf, said dozens of settlers from Yitzhar, the settlement adjacent to Shalhevet, fired their weapons in the air, overturned a car and broke the windows of three homes. The mayor said several residents had been wounded, of which two were shot with live rounds.

The Israel Defense Forces imposed a curfew on Asira al-Kabaliya following the clash.
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At present, no settlers have been arrested in relation to the violence.

Events began early Saturday when a Palestinian man set fire to an abandoned building in Shalhevet, the IDF said. The boy was stabbed when he spotted the intruder and tried to call for help, the military said. The boy was treated for minor wounds at a hospital in Petah Tikvah.

The resulting rampage continued for almost three hours.

Resident Ahmed Daoud said settlers broke windows in his house and shot at water tanks on his rooftop. He said he, his children and a neighbor threw stones from the roof to try to drive the assailants away.

Daoud said his 10-year-old son was lightly hurt by shrapnel and that the neighbor was hit in the face by a rubber-coated steel bullet.

Sharaf said that in all, two villagers were hit by live fire and four by rubber bullets. It was not clear whether soldiers also opened fire to enforce the curfew.

One of those hit by live fire, 17-year-old Wafa Subboh, was struck in the shoulder and was treated at Raffidiyeh Hospital in the nearby city of Nablus, hospital officials said.

Another resident of the village, Muhammad Asayrah, 58, told Haaretz described a "cat and mouse" game between troops and the rioting settlers, who he said went from house to house in the village and fired randomly at villagers.

Yitzhar resident: Stabbing happened under the noses of IDF troops

Yehuda Liebman, a member of the Yitzhar settlement security patrol, said Saturday that the stabbing took place directly above an IDF post manned by troops, saying that "the incitement, the fire that raged, the stabbing and the escape of the terrorist" all took place under the soldiers' noses and "no one fired a shot."

Initial IDF investigations have found that troops stationed in Yitzhar did not notice the terrorist entering the Shalhevet neighborhood, and only spotted him when he exited the settlement and was not carrying a knife, and therefore did not raise their suspicion.

"There is always movement from the settlement to the outside and therefore it didn?t raise suspicion. He entered the neighborhood without us seeing him, probably by way of a nearby wadi (dry creek bed)," an IDF officer said
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  1.   Pallywood 12:22  |  Andreas 13/09/08
  2.   They the PALESTINIANS will never learn...... 12:36  |  Dagma 13/09/08
  3.   GOOD THING 9 YEAR OLDS DON`T BUY HAARETZ 13:03  |  Steve 13/09/08
  4.   "Four Palestinians hurt " 13:07  |  Kali 13/09/08
  5.   Dismantel the settlements 13:10  |  David 13/09/08
  6.   Palis do learn 13:41  |  sabra 13/09/08
  7.   curfew 13:56  |  rm 13/09/08
  8.   Stabbing youg kids is seriously demented 14:11  |  Johnny 13/09/08
  9.   Place a curfew on Yitzhar, too. 14:19  |  Tzfonit 13/09/08
  10.   Haaretz "The disturbance began shortly ..." u mean protest? 14:27  |  John 13/09/08
  11.   to #4 14:50  |  Northern 13/09/08
  12.   The problem stareted when the Jews responded 15:06  |  MR 13/09/08
  13.   Another Kuntar ? 15:06  |  Alberto Cohen 13/09/08
  14.   When Settlers learn to love their children more than 15:13  |  Labhras 13/09/08
  15.   Tibi 15:19  |  MR 13/09/08
  16.   14: Labhras does his usual inversion 16:01  |  David Teich 13/09/08
  17.   Thank you settlers for settlingPals tho Im not a settler suporter 16:02  |  Alan SA 13/09/08
  18.   lahbras 16:09  |  larry from delaware 13/09/08
  19.   9 years old and already a settler? 16:18  |  HS 13/09/08
  20.   Od Lo Avda Tikvateinu etc... Ve Ha I`kar Lo Lefahed Klal 16:18  |  Joseph.E 13/09/08
  21.   peter sm - like a pogrom? 16:31  |  potobac 13/09/08
  22.   #5 Daoud - Jerusalem 17:15  |  * BEN JABO 13/09/08
  23.   #21 potobac - just like a pogrom 17:20  |  * BEN JABO 13/09/08
  24.   Right on jews from Samaria & Judea ! 17:22  |  JP 13/09/08
  25.   Are you living in a jungle 17:27  |  Gape 13/09/08
  26.   #10 John - UK - try getting your ducks in order 17:45  |  * BEN JABO 13/09/08
  27.   "Palestinian" attacks won`t go unpunished. 17:58  |  Chaim 13/09/08
  28.   to 19 18:15  |  Northern 13/09/08
  29.   to protobac re PeterSM, a mini progom yes, a complete one only if 18:44  |  JP 13/09/08
  30.   to protobac re PeterSM, a mini pogrom yes, a complete one only if 18:47  |  JP 13/09/08
  31.   "Peace Now" has no objection to stabbing israeli children??? 19:10  |  Voice of Reason 13/09/08
  32.   You always rely on PEACE NOW for objectivity, Right! 19:22  |  DOC HOLLIDAY 13/09/08
  33.   The Irgun would have done much more. 19:36  |  sk 13/09/08
  34.   jp 23 19:40  |  potobac 13/09/08
  35.   voice of reason 25 19:46  |  potobac 13/09/08
  36.   doc holliday 19:50  |  potobac 13/09/08
  37.   #21 2ND TRY Potrobac - Unlike a Pogrom 19:57  |  * BEN JABO 13/09/08
  38.   potobac 21 20:04  |  ChanahS 13/09/08
  39.   Northern - 23 20:05  |  ChanahS 13/09/08
  40.   Arab terrorists and their supporters will pay for their crimes 20:50  |  Dani 13/09/08
  41.   abandoned building set on fire 21:17  |  JoJo 13/09/08
  42.   Peace for whom? 21:20  |  D. 13/09/08
  43.   Yep, Jewish pogrom 21:24  |  Mark B. 13/09/08
  44.   Kol Hakavod 21:26  |  Ari 13/09/08
  45.   peace now 21:31  |  Eli 13/09/08
  46.   A Palestinian infiltrator stabbed a 9-year-old 21:54  |  arent you sooo proud 13/09/08
  47.   what happens When u stab sumones child 22:08  |  Yakov 13/09/08
  48.   Once again the pals starting trouble 22:21  |  Adrian de Klerk 13/09/08
  49.   Enough is enough 23:06  |  H 13/09/08
  50.   WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU PEOPLE??? 23:11  |  newsreader 13/09/08
  51.   #23 Nothern 00:04  |  HS 14/09/08
  52.   Is this not Resistence? Is this not an Intifadah? 00:05  |  Awake 14/09/08
  53.   Simple remark! 00:14  |  northern neighbor 14/09/08
  54.   The attack of a child is abhorrent the response of the settlers.. 00:35  |  Yered Shmuel 14/09/08
  55.   Hey folks, this stuff doesn`t happen in a vacuum... 00:37  |  Kol ha-Nevi`im 14/09/08
  56.   # 36 adrian 00:40  |  Axel 14/09/08
  57.   #21 CENSOR 3RD TRY Potobac 00:43  |  * BEN JABO 14/09/08
  58.   Once and for all 01:12  |  Edifce 14/09/08
  59.   what goes around... 01:34  |  Shelley 14/09/08
  60.   why is this complicated 01:40  |  Dave Duncan 14/09/08
  61.   The free World is BEHIND ALL JEWISH SETTLERS 01:51  |  John 14/09/08
  62.   Settler Squads = Israel`s SS 01:53  |  Observer 14/09/08
  63.   #22 like a pogrom 01:54  |  Rab Burns 14/09/08
  64.   LONG LIVE PALESTINE THE LAND OF COURAGE AND THE PRIDE 01:58  |  meeeeeee 14/09/08
  65.   Dismantle the settlements! Get the settlers out! 02:08  |  Maureen Ann 14/09/08
  66.   The stabbing of a 9yr old just byline for haaretz 02:14  |  Arie 14/09/08
  67.   A nine year old CHILD, you dolts 02:17  |  steve from raleigh 14/09/08
  68.   ben jabo 42 02:19  |  potobac 14/09/08
  69.   jp 24 02:24  |  potobac 14/09/08
  70.   If the IDF won`t protect Jews 02:31  |  Great White North 14/09/08
  71.   There`s a word for this. 02:49  |  Colin Wright 14/09/08
  72.   Wondering about those rubber bullets 02:56  |  Colin Wright 14/09/08
  73.   #41 Axel - ummmm I must be missing 02:57  |  Adrian de Klerk 14/09/08
  74.   #46 mauren 03:08  |  duncan 14/09/08
  75.   #maureen p2 03:09  |  duncan 14/09/08
  76.   #52 Potobac - Jews didn`t perform a Pogrom 04:11  |  * BEN JABO 14/09/08
  77.   #56 Colin Wrong - It wasn`t a Pogrom by any 04:17  |  * BEN JABO 14/09/08
  78.   #53 Potobac - You must be totally blind 04:20  |  * BEN JABO 14/09/08
  79.   #55 Colin Wrong - You`re using the wrong word 04:50  |  * BEN JABO 14/09/08
  80.   Axel is disinforming again 04:53  |  * BEN JABO 14/09/08
  81.   adrien de klerk 05:28  |  potobac 14/09/08
  82.   Settlers 10:06  |  THE TEACHER/INSTRUCT 14/09/08
  83.   49: Maureen Ann again supports ethnic cleansing 11:07  |  David Teich 14/09/08
  84.   potobac back and lying again 11:12  |  David Teich 14/09/08
  85.   Sir (48) could it be that your creator fogot about the cerebrum 12:00  |  Jew- and Bookburner 14/09/08
  86.   The settlers are Citizens & Stop calling them settlers ! 12:23  |  Akram Zekaria 14/09/08
  87.   #52 Potobac - do us a favor 13:20  |  * BEN JABO 14/09/08
  88.   # 57 adrian 13:21  |  Axel 14/09/08
  89.   adrian de klerk 13:33  |  Axel 14/09/08
  90.   #62 Akram Zakaria. O.K. 13:59  |  Maureen Ann 14/09/08
  91.   david teich 65 17:01  |  potobac 14/09/08
  92.   ben jabo 68 17:13  |  potobac 14/09/08
  93.   potobac # 84/85 (1) 2 b cont. 23:44  |  THE TEACHER/INSTRUCT 14/09/08
  94.   potobac.cont. # (2) 00:22  |  THE TEACHER/INSTRUCT 15/09/08
  95.   the teacher/instruct 86 03:08  |  potobac 15/09/08
  96.   teacher/instructor addendum 10:58  |  potobac 15/09/08
  97.   #89 axel - oh that myth 11:08  |  Adrian de Klerk 15/09/08
  98.   Is arson under occupation a terrorist act? 13:08  |  Cert 15/09/08
  99.   #92 Potobac - Are you really that blind? 18:09  |  * BEN JABO 15/09/08
  100.   #92-2 Potobac - Look at post #78 above 18:11  |  * BEN JABO 15/09/08
  101.   #98 Cert - Prague 18:15  |  *BEN JABO 15/09/08
  102.   #98-2 Cert - Prague 18:17  |  * BEN JABO 15/09/08
  103.   91: poor, potobac, don`t `ya get the concept of "text files" 21:18  |  David Teich 15/09/08
  104.   potobac: oh, yeah 21:22  |  David Teich 15/09/08
  105.   ben jabo 92 12:22  |  potobac 16/09/08
  106.   #105 Potobac 17:15  |  * BEN JABO 16/09/08
  107.   ben jabo 106 17:38  |  potobac 16/09/08
  108.   #107 Potobac - Why do I have to take you 18:15  |  * BEN JABO 16/09/08
  109.   david teich 103 last try 18:47  |  potobac 16/09/08
  110.   ben jabo 109 22:33  |  potobac 16/09/08
  111.   #110-2 Potobac 02:48  |  * BEN JABO 17/09/08
  112.   #36;potobac, What did you think? 03:56  |  DOC HOLLIDAY 17/09/08
  113.   109: The truth`s not really that complicated, potobac 13:14  |  David Teich 17/09/08
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