Palestinian Farmer Killed by Israeli Settlers in West Bank

30 Nov

5:39 PM

A group of extremist Israeli settlers, on Thursday afternoon, shot a Palestinian farmer in the upper part of his body, leaving him dead, local sources reported.

The settlers descended from an illegal settlement near the Palestinian village of Qusra, in the outskirts of the West Bank city of Nablus.

“After they had come close to the Palestinian farms, the settlers started to harass the Palestinian farmers in the village,” an eyewitness told Days of Palestine.

“When the farmers tried to push the settlers out of their farms,” the eyewitness said, “an armed settler aimed his pistol towards a Palestinian farmer and opened fire.”

The Palestinians evacuated the murdered farmer to a Palestinian hospital in Nablus, but Israeli forces stormed the hospital and abducted the body, said Ghassan Daghlas, a Palestinian Authority official, who monitors settlement activity in the northern West Bank.

According to the Palestinian paramedics, the farmer was identified as Mohammad Odeh, 48, from the city of Nablus. He had been beaten several times by Israeli settlers while working on his farm.

An Israeli occupation army and settler council in the West Bank claimed that the Israeli settlers were little boys, and were on vacation. Then, a group of Palestinians gathered around them, blocking them inside a cave and beating them. Therefore, one out of two armed guards, who escorted them, used his handgun to disperse the mob, but a bullet accidentally hit the Palestinian farmer and killed him.

The occupied West Bank witnesses, almost daily, similar aggressions by extremist Israeli settlers, who are protected by the Israeli government.

Israeli rights groups have often reported that the Israeli police does not deal with Palestinian complaints regarding the harassment and settler attacks.

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