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'Palestinians' abduct Jewish civilians, tie and beat them

A mob of 'Palestinian' villagers abducted, tied and beat a group of Jewish civilians in Samaria a short time ago, claiming that the Jews had thrown stones at 'Palestinian' farmers.

Dozens of Jewish men were abducted and beaten in a mob attack in the Binyamin region on Tuesday afternoon. The men were set upon by an Arab mob, chased down, tied up and beaten senseless.

One of the men told Arutz Sheva about the vicious attack. The men were attacked as they were walking from the Jewish village of Esh Kodesh to the nearby Givat Hayovel.

Suddenly, they were set upon by an Arab mob, he said. “They blocked us in with trucks. The Arabs started hurling rocks at the Jewish group.”

The Jews were forced to hide nearby, he continued. “We called the army, because we felt our lives were in danger. The Arabs gathered us into one place, tied our hands and legs, and beat us cruelly,” he said.

The beatings were so severe that he passed out, he said.

The army arrived, and convinced local Arab leaders to order the Jewish men released. The victim who spoke to Arutz Sheva said that IDF officers seemed to blame the victims.

He recalled that one officer told him, “You came to do a ‘price tag’ and now you’re going to get it.” Jews living in Judea and Samaria have widely been blamed for “price tag” attacks - nationalistically-motivated vandalism targeting Arab-owned property - despite evidence that most perpetrators of such vandalism are not from the region.

They look like kids to me.

Reuters (via JPost) adds:

The Israelis, who appeared to be aged between 15 and 30, were detained in an uninhabited house on the outskirts of the Palestinian village of Qusra after what Palestinians said was a settler assault on local farmers.

"I was tending my fields when a group of around 30 settlers came down the hill and attacked us with stones," Palestinian farmer Mahmoud Tubasi told Reuters.

"We chased them and they fled to a house under construction. They were cornered there and some of the people here beat them - they had attacked us on our own land."

A Reuters witness said the villagers beat 15 Israeli settlers with their fists and sticks, causing some to bleed from the head and mouth.

And they weren't exactly 'released' either.

The Palestinians later released the group, whom they said came from a nearby Jewish settlement, to Israeli soldiers, after forcing them them pass one-by-one though a gauntlet of residents who rained blows on them.

And finally, the 'Palestinian' version of events:

Palestinian villagers from three Nablus area villages Tuesday confronted Israeli settlers who entered their fields to uproot and destroy olive trees, according to a local official.

Ghassan Daghlas, who monitors settlements in the north of the West Bank, told WAFA that settlers, protected by soldiers, proceeded to uproot newly-planted olive trees in the villages of Qaryout, Jalout and Qusra when villagers rushed to their fields to stop the settlers.

He said confrontations broke out between them and soldiers fired tear gas canisters towards the Palestinian residents. No injuries were reported.

At one point, villagers were able to hold more than a dozen settlers in the fields in spite of the Israeli army protection to the settlers.

Amazing how WAFA (from whom that summary came - I got it by email) changes the story, isn't it? 

If you're a revenant, please think carefully about going outside your village without weapons. Better safe than sorry.

Labels: olive trees, Palestinian lies, Palestinian terrorism, revenants, Samaria

posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 5:37 PM