Israeli settlers assault shepherds near Bethlehem
BETHLEHEM, Monday, January 25, 2021 (WAFA) – Israeli settlers today assaulted Palestinian shepherds in Kisan village, to the east of the occupied West Bank city of Bethlehem, local sources said.
Mayor of Kisan, Ahmad Ghazal, told WAFA that settlers from the illegal Israeli colonial settlement of Ibei Hanahal hurled rocks toward a number of shepherds, injuring one, and released dogs towards the sheep, devouring the heads of several sheep.
Located 11 kilometers to the south of Bethlehem city, Kisan has a population of some 600 and occupies a total area of 133,330 dunams.
Under the Oslo Accords, an agreement made 25 years ago that was supposed to last just five years towards a self-governing country alongside Israel, the Palestinian Authority was given limied control over a tiny pocket of land occupying 112 dunams, accounting for less than 1 percent of the village’s total area. Israel maintains control over 108,952, classified
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Palestinians fend off settler attack in Bethlehem-district village
BETHLEHEM, Wednesday, December 16, 2020 (WAFA) – Palestinian villagers Tuesday night fended off an Israeli settler attack against Kisan village, located to the east of the occupied West Bank city of Bethlehem, according to sources.
Mayor of Kisan, Ahmad Ghazal, told WAFA that 20 Israeli settlers in three vehicles sneaked their way into the village, and pelted some of the villagers’ houses with stones before they were confronted by the villagers and forced to retreat.
The settlers came from the nearby colonial settlement of Eibi Hanhel, also written as Eibi Hankhal, established on lands seized from the village.