ISRAEL ORDERS TO REMOVE ELECTRICITY NETWORK NEAR HEBRON

Electricity Network in Ghwain, Hebron Governorate. taken: 2011 (Photo: LRC doc)

Hebron, 16 Muharram 1435/ 20 November 2013 (MINA) – Israeli authorities Wednesday ordered the municipality of the town of Ithna, west of Hebron, to remove part of the electricity network, which provides electricity for a whole neighborhood west of town, according to Head of Ithna municipality Hashim al-Tmaizi.

He said that the electricity grid was built several years ago and that the municipality has been laying down water and electric networks, opening new roads in areas where the population is expanding in the town due to Israeli takeover of most of the town land and the presence of the apartheid wall which engulfed thousands of dunums of Palestinian land, Palestine’s WAFA reported as quoted by Mi’raj News Agency (MINA).

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On the same day, Israeli forces shot and injured two Palestinians, in addition to an activist, while trying to suppress a peaceful demonstration in the town of Yabod, south of Jenin, according to local sources.

They told WAFA that forces fired steel rubber-coated bullets toward the protesters, protesting the uprooting of hundreds of olive trees located near the settlement of Mavo Dotan, built illegally on the town’s land, shooting and injuring two Palestinians and an activist.Forces also arrested a Palestinian youth. (T/P010/P03)

MINA (Mi’raj News Agency)