South Florida Sun Sentinel · Fort Lauderdale, Florida · 22 June 2023
CP-2023-042
In West Bank, Palestinian towns stormed by settlers
Israeli airstrike on car adds to unrest amid crackdown
By Isabel Debre, Associated Press, Turmus Ayya, West Bank
Transcribed from the clipping
“TURMUS AYYA, West Bank — Hundreds of Israeli settlers stormed into a Palestinian town in the occupied West Bank on Wednesday, setting fire to dozens of cars and homes… ‘It was terrifying, we just saw mobs of people in the streets, masked, armed,’ said Mohammed Suleiman, 56, a Palestinian-American who lives in Chicago and was visiting his hometown.
Suleiman blamed the Israeli military, saying the soldiers turned their guns on the Palestinian residents instead of the vandals… Abdulkarim Abdulkarim, 44, a resident of Ohio, said his family’s four cars were burned and house damaged.
‘They call us terrorists, but here you have terrorism supported by the government,’ he said… Tayem Abu Awwad, 15, a U.S. citizen from Northern California, was shot in an attack last week… Mayor Lafi Adeeb said some 30 houses and 60 cars were partly or totally burned…”
Context added by this archive
Turmus Ayya is a town where many residents hold American passports, so the dispatch is full of Chicago, Ohio and Northern California. It is also the clearest instance in this collection of a Palestinian being quoted turning the word terrorism around.
Cite this clipping
"In West Bank, Palestinian towns stormed by settlers," South Florida Sun Sentinel, 22 June 2023, p. 1. Covering Palestine archive, CP-2023-042. https://coveringpalestine.org/archive/cp-2023-042
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