Israeli settlers call for uprising

Jewish settlers of an Israeli settlement in occupied West Bank have called for an uprising against any construction freeze in the Palestinian territory.

Israeli settlers from the West Bank settlement of Yizthar, released a letter Friday calling on "all West Bank settlers" to fight against any restriction on West Bank settlement works, Israeli daily Haartz reported.

The letter, conveyed to settlements in Har Bracha, Itamar and Elon Moreh, declared, "This is not just Yitzhar's battle but every settler's fight."

"On such days, in which the restrictions on the settlements are multiplying, the battle against them is of great importance," read the letter.

Earlier Thursday, Yitzhar settlers marched through a neighboring village and attacked a Palestinian home. Later in the day, Israeli police arrested 11 settlers, which included senior settlement officials, for the attack. The police, however, released the detainees soon after.

Under the international law, building settlements and expanding them in the territory occupied during the 1967 war, including the West Bank, is illegal.

Jewish settlers, however, usually defy the ban through erecting what are referred to as illegal outposts, namely makeshift homes and residential units. Such moves are usually carried out with the blessing of right-wing Israeli parties.

Source: PressTV.
Link: http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=125007§ionid=351020202.