Settlers’ assaults…assaulting a journalist and three women…clashes in Shu’fat renew
Two extremists assaulted on Monday afternoon a Jerusalemite journalist and a woman while being at Damascus Gate in Jerusalem. Wadi Hilweh Information Center was informed that two extremists assaulted the journalist Nuha Musleh and another Jerusalemite woman during an interview they were doing for the American National Radio by throwing a big stone at them. The journalist explained that she was injured in her right shoulder and had lost consciousness and the other woman suffered bruises after the stone hit her chest. Musleh added that the young men chased the two extremists who tried to run away inside the Old City and caught them and then handed them to the Israeli police located outside Damascus Gate; the police transferred them to Salah Eddin Street Police station. A group of settlers assaulted a woman while she was walking in the neighborhood of Ras Al-Amoud on Monday night. Witnesses said that the Israeli police assaulted the young men who tried to defend the Jerusalemite woman. In a related matter, a settler tried to attack a girl around Monday midnight while she was walking in Oqbat Al-Khaldyeh in the Old City of Jerusalem. Clashes Clashes renewed on Monday night in the neighbourhood of Shu’fat and Shu’fat refugee camp for the sixth consecutive day. Witnesses explained that the Israeli forces fired sound grenades towards the Martyr’s mourning tent during the clashes and several young men were injured with shrapnel of the grenades. Marwan Suleiman who is a paramedic from the Arab Paramedics Union said that eight young men were injured with rubber bullets during the clashes that broke out in Shu’fat. Al-Ram Eleven young men were injured with rubber bullets in Al-Ram. Tahadi Tokhali who is a paramedic from the Arab Paramedics Union said that nine young men were injured with rubber bullets in the limbs and others suffered injuries in the chest and stomach while one young man was injured with a tear gas bomb that directly hit him in the chest and another man suffered an injury in the shoulder. He Israeli police said that they arrested four Jerusalemites on Monday night from the neighborhoods of Wadi Joz and Beit Safafa.
