Rogue Terrorist State of Israel Continues Ethnic Cleansing
RAMALLAH, West Bank - The Palestinians have been caught between the rock of the Israeli separation wall with daily humiliation by trigger-happy Israeli soldiers and the hard place of a humanitarian crisis with severe shortage in food and medicine due to checkpoint closures and aid cut by the West.
Khedr Khalil is a Palestinian worker from the West Bank city of Bethlehem lying in a critical condition at the Intensive Care Unit after sustaining serious back injuries as he attempted to climb the Israeli separation wall for a job on the other side of the territories.
"Desperate as he was, Khalil decided to take the risk and climb the seven-meter wall on his way to Occupied East Jerusalem to find a job and cater for his seven siblings," his cousin Mohamed told IslamOnline.net Monday, April 24.
"He fell down the wall and injured his back to be only kicked and beaten by four Israeli soldiers with rifle butts and batons."
Khalil, 38, was later admitted to the Beit Jala hospital between life and death.
Israel claims the 700km-long separation wall in the West Bank is meant to stop Palestinian attacks. The Palestinians, however, argue that it preempts their future state and confiscate vast swathes of their land.
The wall has already confiscated 11,4000 dunums (2,850 acres - 1,140 hectares) of privately-owned Palestinian land and led to the destruction of 102,320 trees, according to a UN report.
According to the report, 30 percent of the West Bank population, or some 680,000 people, will be "directly harmed" with the completion of the wall.
Palestinian experts further say that the Israelis clearly sought to commandeer water resources by establishing the wall as Israel is monopolizing around 75 percent of Palestinian water resources in the occupied West Bank, a region where rainfall is infrequent and water a strategic asset.
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Khedr Khalil is a Palestinian worker from the West Bank city of Bethlehem lying in a critical condition at the Intensive Care Unit after sustaining serious back injuries as he attempted to climb the Israeli separation wall for a job on the other side of the territories.
"Desperate as he was, Khalil decided to take the risk and climb the seven-meter wall on his way to Occupied East Jerusalem to find a job and cater for his seven siblings," his cousin Mohamed told IslamOnline.net Monday, April 24.
"He fell down the wall and injured his back to be only kicked and beaten by four Israeli soldiers with rifle butts and batons."
Khalil, 38, was later admitted to the Beit Jala hospital between life and death.
Israel claims the 700km-long separation wall in the West Bank is meant to stop Palestinian attacks. The Palestinians, however, argue that it preempts their future state and confiscate vast swathes of their land.
The wall has already confiscated 11,4000 dunums (2,850 acres - 1,140 hectares) of privately-owned Palestinian land and led to the destruction of 102,320 trees, according to a UN report.
According to the report, 30 percent of the West Bank population, or some 680,000 people, will be "directly harmed" with the completion of the wall.
Palestinian experts further say that the Israelis clearly sought to commandeer water resources by establishing the wall as Israel is monopolizing around 75 percent of Palestinian water resources in the occupied West Bank, a region where rainfall is infrequent and water a strategic asset.
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