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<p class="byline"><small>Posted  			by palestinesolidarity@gmail.com (ISM Palestine)	at PS.HADNEWS.COM 		on Sunday, 			April 10, 			2011 			at 8:19 am. </small></p>
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<p><strong>10 April 2011 | International Solidarity Movement</strong></p>
<p>At 8.30am yesterday morning around fifty settlers, some masked and  armed with guns, descended from Yitzhar settlement onto the Palestinian   village of Assira Al Qibliya. International observers from the UK and  Ireland witnessed the settlers threw rocks at homes and people on the  outskirts of the village injuring one local, who is being treated in  hospital.</p>
<p>Within thirty minutes an army jeep carrying Israeli soldiers arrived.  They stood in front of the settlers on the hillside approximately one  hundred metres from the Palestinian homes yet did nothing to prevent  their attacks. The soldiers could be seen firing guns into the air and  directly towards the Palestinians who had come out of their homes to  witness and document this attack on their village.</p>
<p>During the attack four settlers broke away from the main group and  made their way to a Palestinian quarry. Two armed with machine guns  stood on a ledge while two descended onto the side of the road and set  fire to a car used by the Palestinian workers.</p>
<p>The settlement of Yitzhar was originally established as a military  outpost in 1983 but demilitarised and turned over to residential  purposes a year later. Yitzhar is home to a Jewish orthodox community of  over 100 who have in the past decade attacked the residents and  properties of Assira Al Qibliya and neighbouring villages on numerous  occasions using rocks, knives, guns and arson. These attacks often  happen on Saturdays, the religious holiday of Shabbat.</p>
<p>Yitzhar is home to Rabbi Elitzur who published a book last November  entitled “The Handbook for the Killing of Gentiles”, condoning the  murder of non-Jewish babies, lest they grow to “be dangerous like their  parents”. Rabbi Elitzur is vocal in his encouragement of “operations of  reciprocal responsibility” such as the arson attack made on Yasuf mosque  in December 2009</p>
<p>Despite West Banks settlements’ status as illegal under international  law, Yitzhar was included in the Israeli governments’ 2009 “national  priority map” as one of the settlements earmarked for financial support.  Yitzhar also receives significant funding from American donations,  tax-deductible under U.S. government tax breaks for ‘charitable’  institutions.</p>
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