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April 13th, 2013 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda 
Israeli soldiers took to tear gas in order to disperse a protest in the occupied West Bank. Scores of Palestinian youths clashed with soldiers, protesting the brutal beating of a 60-year-old former judge.
The youths set tires on fire and threw rocks at Israeli
soldiers, which used teargas to disperse the protesters.
Violence erupted after Friday prayers in Silwa as hundreds of
village men streamed past Israeli troops who tried to block their
path. The Palestinians gathered in al-Zir’s apricot grove in
protest.
“Our land, its stones and its soil, is our right. Sleeping on
it by night and tending to it by day, without fear of attacks by
hateful settlers, is a matter of our very existence,” the local
imam told the worshipers at Friday prayers.
The outrage was sparked by the brutal beating of a 60-year-old
former judge Ahmad al-Zir. Israelis allegedly attacked him with
steel pipes as the man was tending his land between the Ofra
settlement and the Palestinian village of Silwad on Thursday.
“They were hitting him again and again on the head, cursing
him and telling him to shut up,” said Mahmoud Hussein, a
relative and an eyewitness of the alleged attack Reuters
reports.
Village youths tracked down the Israelis to their encampment and
burned down one of their improvised homes. Israeli forces were sent
to the scene late Thursday to disperse the angered Palestinians.
They fired at the protesters, wounding two with live bullets,
including one in the chest, medics said.
IDF officials have described the incident as a “clash between
Israeli and Palestinian civilians.” The alleged beating is
under investigation, said an Israeli army spokesperson.
Meanwhile, dozens of Palestinians suffered tear-gas inhalation
during clashes near Mount Hebron in the West Bank after the Israeli
troops attacked a weekly march against the closure of the road link
between Hebron and its southern villages, the march coordinator
told Ma’an. At least one person was reportedly struck by a tear-gas
canister.
The escalation comes amid disputes over the Israeli settlements
in the occupied West Bank where Palestinian youths frequently hurl
stones at settlers’ cars and Israeli soldiers. There are some 120
official settlements, such as Ofra, and also more than 100 built
without official authorization in the West Bank.
Source Article from http://rt.com/news/palestinians-clash-israeli-troops-782/
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