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Yitzhar settlers' West Bank rampage caught on camera
By Haaretz Service
Tags: settlers, Palestinian 

Channel 10 aired footage on Sunday that showed West Bank settlers rampaging through a Palestinian village on the previous day.

The footage, obtained from Israeli human rights organization B'Tselem, shows Israel Defense Forces soldiers consistently present at the scene of the rampage, during which settlers fired on Palestinian residents, destroyed their property and spray-painted Stars of David on homes.
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The settlers were responding Saturday to the stabbing of a 10-year-old Israeli boy by a Palestinian at the illegal outpost of Shalhevet Yam near Yitzhar.

Also Sunday, dozens of youths from the West Bank settlement of Yitzhar on Sunday established an outpost near the Palestinian village that settlers had rampaged in Saturday.

Prime Minister Ehud Olmert declared earlier in the day that Israel's government will not allow settlers to carry out "pogroms against non-Jews."

Speaking at the weekly cabinet meeting one day after the rampage in the village of Assira al-Kabaliya, Olmert said "there will not be pogroms against non-Jews in the state of Israel."

The violence in Assira al-Kabaliya left at least eight Palestinians hurt. The boy, stabbed in the back and the hand, sustained minor wounds.

"The phenomenon of [settlers] taking the law into their own hands and lashing out with violence and brutality is unforgivable, and will be dealt with by the law enforcement authorities," Olmert said.

The prime minister went on to describe the previous day's events, saying "in northern Samaria there was a terror attack, and a young boy was hurt. This is serious and momentous and the defense forces will find the culprit and do what needs to be done, as they do every day. However, Yitzhar settlers went on a retaliatory rampage against Palestinian residents, using live fire."

Olmert went on to say that there was no reason to believe that the Palestinians targeted by the settlers had any connection to the stabbing attack earlier in the day.

"There are law enforcement authorities in the state of Israel," Olmert told the cabinet, "we have a military and security services and we won't allow this kind of violence or brutal attacks on civilians. Moreover, the violence is not used against those suspected of terrorism, it is used against Israel Defense Forces officers and soldiers. I urge the authorities to take measures to end this grave phenomenon."

In a meeting of Labor Party ministers earlier Sunday, Defense Minister Ehud Barak sais that "the defense establishment will act with decisiveness to enforce law and order in the West Bank, but we need the cooperation of the police and the legal system."
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  1.   We Won`t let Terrorists Get Away With Murder 12:24  |  Yishai Kohen 14/09/08
  2.   What is Legitmate? 12:35  |  Paul 14/09/08
  3.   Lame duck 12:37  |  Hans 14/09/08
  4.   It has nothing to do with "non-Jews"- only Arab terrorists 12:38  |  Dani 14/09/08
  5.   Isn`t it ironic that the only Israeli leader....... 12:47  |  Swiss (Dino) 14/09/08
  6.   # you add the word "terrorist" to justify your own terror and 12:55  |  American 14/09/08
  7.   Settlers go back to Israeli soil 12:56  |  Aaron 14/09/08
  8.   WHAT IS THIS GUY SAYING!!!! 13:19  |  Ben 14/09/08
  9.   To # 1 13:23  |  Jan 14/09/08
  10.   Pogrom against Sderot is O.K. with Olmert 13:35  |  * BEN JABO 14/09/08
  11.   and what followed the POGROM? 13:39  |  amihai 14/09/08
  12.   vandalism is not a "pogrom" 14:00  |  JB 14/09/08
  13.   No one in the government has the guts 14:00  |  spyguy 14/09/08
  14.   Olmert`s pogrom 14:07  |  Brod 14/09/08
  15.   OLMERT : GO TO JAIL FOR LONG TIME !!! 14:08  |  ISRAELI 14/09/08
  16.   and the stabbing is just business as usual! 14:08  |  Avi 14/09/08
  17.   Swiss Dino - You can keep Olmert for yourself 14:10  |  Avi 14/09/08
  18.   #5 swiss 14:15  |  duncan 14/09/08
  19.   Dino: why write in Haaretz when you can fight for the enemy? 14:21  |  Avi 14/09/08
  20.   Israeli occupation = South African apartheid 14:23  |  Greg 14/09/08
  21.   Olmert 100% correct. Pogroms spread hate not justice 14:28  |  Ivar 14/09/08
  22.   Y. Cohen admits to being a bloody vigilante, should be locked up 14:30  |  Ivar 14/09/08
  23.   Olmert seems to forget who he will be on Thursday .. 14:32  |  redmike 14/09/08
  24.   olmert desperation is showing 14:51  |  Arie 14/09/08
  25.   #19 avi 14:53  |  duncan 14/09/08
  26.   Am I the only one.. 15:13  |  rm 14/09/08
  27.   Reminder (to Swiss (Dino)) 15:13  |  Israeli citizen 14/09/08
  28.   @duncan 15:19  |  Greg 14/09/08
  29.   # 1 to yishai kohen re: your settlers 15:24  |  eric 14/09/08
  30.   He was cut on the back of the hand 15:35  |  POP 14/09/08
  31.   # 19 Avi, don`t worry, I only try to show you a way..... 16:00  |  Swiss (Dino) 14/09/08
  32.   # 25 duncan 16:08  |  Swiss (Dino) 14/09/08
  33.   Empty words 16:20  |  JP 14/09/08
  34.   Action as well as words 16:36  |  Leon 14/09/08
  35.   yishai kohen 1 16:47  |  potobac 14/09/08
  36.   And what about settler pogroms against Jews....? 16:51  |  Esther 14/09/08
  37.   RETALLIATION 16:51  |  Sigal Shadmi 14/09/08
  38.   ILL BELIEVE IT WHEN I SEE IT 16:56  |  bill 14/09/08
  39.   Yishai #1 17:00  |  Esther 14/09/08
  40.   Blah Blah Blah 17:07  |  Danite 14/09/08
  41.   olmert`s pogroms ok? all on video:amona beatings 17:28  |  yahn goodey 14/09/08
  42.   #26 greg 17:34  |  duncan 14/09/08
  43.   # 5, SWISS (DINO) 17:36  |  indrajaya 14/09/08
  44.   #29 is swiss dino backtracking 17:37  |  duncan 14/09/08
  45.   To #1 et. al., (Justifying Vigilantism) 17:37  |  noded 14/09/08
  46.   #25 swiss dino crime vs mistake 17:40  |  duncan 14/09/08
  47.   # 2 paul 17:52  |  Axel 14/09/08
  48.   statement long time coming!!! 17:55  |  Rob of melbourne 14/09/08
  49.   If only 17:59  |  English Resident 14/09/08
  50.   # 43 indrajaya (2nd try) 18:11  |  Swiss (Dino) 14/09/08
  51.   # 44 # 46 duncan 18:18  |  Swiss (Dino) 14/09/08
  52.   A realistic option 18:22  |  Jean Van Daem 14/09/08
  53.   Greg 18:31  |  x-ray 14/09/08
  54.   the obvious 18:53  |  Bronxite10 14/09/08
  55.   9 year old stabbed- don`t forget that part 18:58  |  paul 14/09/08
  56.   #swiss dino, swiss history what was known and when 19:00  |  duncan 14/09/08
  57.   Where was everybody all along ? 19:09  |  David 14/09/08
  58.   American, I endourse your words 19:13  |  Luiz Felipe Haddad 14/09/08
  59.   # 55 duncan, why are you shifting away from the.... 19:45  |  Swiss (Dino) 14/09/08
  60.   The right answer 19:55  |  Dave Duncan 14/09/08
  61.   no one is forgetting a nine year old was stabbed 20:12  |  newageblues 14/09/08
  62.   #1 Settler terrorists 20:18  |  Janice 14/09/08
  63.   To # 1 Yishai Kohen 20:20  |  Eli 14/09/08
  64.   Settlers need to learn some Moderation 20:52  |  Awake 14/09/08
  65.   pogroms not ok, but putting up an illigal outpost is? 21:05  |  rm 14/09/08
  66.   Esther 22:15  |  Sigal Shadmi 14/09/08
  67.   So what will our fading governmet decide to do... 22:15  |  Esther 14/09/08
  68.   #64 where exactly in israel can you put up an illegal outpost? 22:38  |  v.hardman 14/09/08
  69.   Ungodly lot... 22:45  |  Maureen Ann 14/09/08
  70.   olmert you are rong 22:50  |  moché 14/09/08