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May 21st, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda
In the scenes that follow, several of the Jewish settlers armed with M4 rifles
– one wearing what appears to be a police cap – are seen to point their guns
at the group of Palestinian men and open fire.
The Israeli soldiers at the scene appear to do nothing to stop them from
shooting.
Fathi Asayira, 24, was shot in the head. The urgent yells of Mr Asayira’s
neighbours rushing to help him are captured in the footage, which has been
collected and posted online by Israeli human rights group B’Tselem.
Mr Asayira is currently in a stable condition in a hospital in Nablus. Five
other Palestinians were injured by stones thrown during the incident.
“The soldiers come to protect the settlers not stop them. On Saturday,
there were around forty looking on from their barracks on the hill,”
says Bassam Saleh, 49, who lives just 300 metres from the notoriously
hardline Mitzpe Yitzhar settlement.
“Three settlers were pointing guns at us. One of them, who was wearing an
Israeli police cap, told the soldier in front of him to step aside and
started to shoot. The soldier stood aside. He did nothing,” he says.
According to Mr Saleh, the violence continued off camera. Another local man
had his nose and cheekbone broken by a rock thrown by the settlers. One
suffered a broken leg.
The settlement claims they were reacting to fires started near by Asira
residents near their outpost. The Asira residents claim the settlers set
fire to their land.
Kassim Saleh, 40, lives next to his brother Bassam. He points out the patches
of scorched earth next to his house. “If you had planted this land,
would you set fire to it?” he asks.
His wife Lubna was among several local women who filmed the violence from her
home. “I’m afraid to film because I’m afraid they will see me taking
their picture and target me,” she admits. “But at the same time, I
want to document what’s going on here.”
Mrs Saleh has filmed more than 60 attacks on the village since B’Tselem gave
her the camera in 2007. In December last year, she filmed a gang of at least
200 Jewish religious nationalists dressed in a black uniform, their faces
covered with masks, brandishing weapons, storming into the village shortly
after midnight.
The almost weekly clashes have taken their toll on her five children, all of
whom are too afraid to use the lavatory by themselves, particularly at
night.
“They are afraid they are going to see a settler at the window because
once, one of them did. They are 11 and 14 years old,” she says.
According to the United Nations, the number of settler attacks on Palestinians
and their properties has increased 144 per cent since 2009. More than 90 per
cent of complaints filed by Palestinians about settler violence have been
closed by the Israeli police in recent years without indictment.
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