Welcome to Hebron where Palestinians are used as spittoons

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Monday January 11, 2010 11:18

by TD - Free Palestine Campaign

"I will break your camera"

Every Saturday afternoon, Israeli colonists some tooled up with M-16's venture forth from their fortified "settlements" to swagger through the souk in Hebron's Old City for a so called "heritage tour", heavily guarded by Israeli Occupation Forces, some as snipers on the roof tops, they strut through the narrow market spitting at, abusing and threatening all who meet their displeasure which in their virulently paranoid view of things, means just about everyone on this planet and such was the case last Saturday where one souk trader; Nawal, was spat at and threatened.

Nawal

In the normal scheme of things in this city of hate, the IOF turn a blind eye to such obscenities and worse, this time, however, the commanding officer returned to investigate and appraised of the facts by the outraged Palestinian woman - a sister of the much loved Laila whose heart is as open as her house to international activists - the riot act was read to the assembled colonists by the same officer. This commendable action was somewhat attenuated by one of his out of control soldiers who threatened and assaulted me during the course of my videoing whilst making strenuous efforts to break my camera (See video).

IOF officer investigating colonist's spitting