Several Palestinians were wounded during clashes with Israeli occupation troops who entered a village near the West Bank city of Ramallah on Sunday, reported the Palestinian news agency, WAFA.
The agency said that Israeli troops entered Nebi Salah village at dawn, fired between the houses, and blocked off all access points to the village.
The agency said the soldiers entered the village in four armored vehicles, eight jeeps and a bus.
Several other Palestinians were left choking by tear gas fired by the Israeli soldiers, it said.
The soldiers later surrounded the home of resident Abdel-Kareem Al Tamimi, burst into his house, and arrested three people, said WAFA.
One of the residents said a soldier smashed his mobile phone, with which he was trying to get the word out about the raid.
Since the outbreak of the latest Israeli-Palestinian conflict last September, CNN reports that Palestinians have killed over 112 Israelis with weapons ranging from stones and knives to machineguns and car bombs. Israeli military sources have reported well over 600 injuries to Israelis of Jewish descent.
In the same time period, according to CNN, Israeli soldiers and armed Jewish settlers have killed 13 Arab Israelis and over 458 Palestinians with weapons ranging from machineguns and tanks to US-made Apache helicopter gunships and F-16s.
According to Amnesty International, nearly 100 of the Palestinians killed were children.
In addition, the Palestinian Red Crescent Society has reported over 14,000 Palestinians wounded, and over 520 killed.
Jewish author Noam Chomsky, who according to a New York Times Book Review article is “arguably the most important intellectual alive,” has been quoted as saying: “State terrorism is an extreme form of terrorism, generally much worse than individual terrorism because it has the resources of a state behind it.” – Albawaba.com
