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| Gun attack damages Red Cross offices in Hebron, none hurt | |
| 2017-04-21 | |
"Around 11 last night, several bullets were fired at our premises in the city of Hebron. No staff were there at the time as it was late at night," ICRC spokesperson Rima Kamal told The Times of Israel. Bullets fired by the gunnies penetrated the compound and shattered the window of a ICRC vehicle parked outside. Kamal said that so far there are no suspects or known motives, and that they are working with local police to catch the gunnies. "It’s really destabilizing for the entire team. We’ve been here for 50 years. We have various programs in the country. Incidents like this really prevent us from carrying out the programs we do," she added. Fourteen staff members work at the ICRC compound in Hebron and 358 work in the aid organization across Israel and the Paleostinian territories. The attack comes as the ICRC has been caught in the middle of a hunger strike by some 1,500 Paleostinian inmates in Israeli prisons demanding more rights. Among the demands is for the ICRC to return to its policy of facilitating two trips for family members to the prisoners per month. Thursday is the fourth day of the hunger strike. The ICRC reduced the coordinated visits to Israeli jails to once a month last May. The reason for the reduction, Kamal said, was to cut costs and raise efficiency as not enough family members were showing up to the second round of visits each month. Self-manufactured weapons seized during check Thursday evening, an IDF force seized three self-manufactured weapons inside a vehicle during a check in the Teenim crossing at the Menashe regional brigade. The driver was detained for questioning. Three suspects taken into custody after attempting to throw a Molotov cocktail at Border Police base [Ynet] Three suspects arrived at a Border Police base in the Etzion Brigade in the West Bank when a soldier noticed that one of the suspects had set fire to a Molotov cocktail and threw it on the floor, kicking it in the direction of the base. When the report came in, a Border Police force and IDF soldiers managed to locate the suspects and bring them into custody, while another suspect was found to be in possession of additional Molotov cocktails. | |
| Posted by:trailing wife |
| #2 We’ve been here for 50 years. I expect there were still Christians in Hebron then. |
| Posted by: phil_b 2017-04-21 01:58 |
| #1 Red on red. |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2017-04-21 01:08 |