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Israeli Settlers Prevent Christian Service in Beit Sahour, Assault Worshippers As Zionism feels its support and influence fading, its supporters are growing increasingly desperate and violent.



George Rishmawi - IMEMC



Settlers trying to force worshippers out (Photo: Rami Rishmawi-IMEMC)



August 7, 2008



Over two hundred Israeli settlers (Zionist Extremists) assaulted Palestinian and International worshippers who were holding a prayer service at Ush Ghrab park in Beit Sahour Wednesday evening.



As the mass started the settlers, who organized an activity in the same site, started to provoke the worshippers and asked them to leave, eyewitnesses reported.



Settlers also threatened some of the local and international journalists who were present. The Israeli soldiers who were there asked the internationals and the Palestinians to leave the park and did not attempt to stop the settlers when they started to force everyone to leave, the witnesses said.



The city council of Beit Sahour is planning to build a children hospital in the site in cooperation with intentional organization CURE. However, the Israeli army imposed a military order on the designated area and the settlers started to frequently plan activities on the site and claimed that the land belongs to them and that they want to built a settlement on this land.



(A settlement is illegal. What really upsets these Extremists is that the hospital will be used to alleviate the suffering of the Palestinians, and the Zionists don't want this.)



The worshippers raised their prayers for the sake of the children of Bethlehem in order to have the planned hospital built.



The settlers, who come from the neighboring illegal settlements of Har Homa and Efrat and others in the Bethlehem area, erased murals that some Palestinian and international activists had made a week ago and wrote some racist graffiti, calling for the death of Arabs.



Ush Ghrab was occupied by the Israeli army in 1967 and was used as a military base. In 2006 the army abandoned the site and the city council in Beit Sahour rehabilitated the site and turned part of it into a public park, and had a plan to build a hospital on the rest of it, in addition to some other facilities that would server the local community in Bethlehem.



Link: www.imemc.org/article/56403



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Israeli settlers prevent a Christian service in Beit Sahour, assault worshippersGeorge Rishmawi - IMEMCSettlers trying to force worshippers out (Photo: Rami Rishmawi-IMEMC)August 7, 2008Over two hundred Israeli settlers (Zionist Extremists) assaulted Palestinian and International worshippers who were holding a prayer service at Ush Ghrab park in Beit Sahour Wednesday evening.As the mass started the settlers, who organized an activity in the same site, started to provoke the worshippers and asked them to leave, eyewitnesses reported.Settlers also threatened some of the local and international journalists who were present. The Israeli soldiers who were there asked the internationals and the Palestinians to leave the park and did not attempt to stop the settlers when they started to force everyone to leave, the witnesses said.The city council of Beit Sahour is planning to build a children hospital in the site in cooperation with intentional organization CURE. However, the Israeli army imposed a military order on the designated area and the settlers started to frequently plan activities on the site and claimed that the land belongs to them and that they want to built a settlement on this land.(A settlement is illegal. What really upsets these Extremists is that the hospital will be used to alleviate the suffering of the Palestinians, and the Zionists don't want this.)The worshippers raised their prayers for the sake of the children of Bethlehem in order to have the planned hospital built.The settlers, who come from the neighboring illegal settlements of Har Homa and Efrat and others in the Bethlehem area, erased murals that some Palestinian and international activists had made a week ago and wrote some racist graffiti, calling for the death of Arabs.Ush Ghrab was occupied by the Israeli army in 1967 and was used as a military base. In 2006 the army abandoned the site and the city council in Beit Sahour rehabilitated the site and turned part of it into a public park, and had a plan to build a hospital on the rest of it, in addition to some other facilities that would server the local community in Bethlehem.Link: www.imemc.org/article/56403Soldiers on Trial for Shooting Bound PalestinianHundreds of New Testaments torched in IsraelIsraeli Settlers Attack UK Diplomatic Convoy Zionist Extremism Key Impediment to Peace

