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Jewish settlers calls for slaughter of Palestinians following guerilla attack
Al-Khalil, Nov 16, IRNA -- Messianic Jewish settlers bent on expelling non-Jews from what they describe as their God-promised land have urged the Zionist regime and army to kill Palestinians en mass in retaliation for Friday's Palestinian resistance attack in al-Khalil that killed 13 Israeli soldiers.
The call was made Sunday by Jewish settler leaders in the West Bank as well as by some Israeli cabinet ministers who demanded that Palestinian population centers be bombed out and Palestinians deported.
''The army must end the existence of those who stand against the Jews,'' said settler leader and former Zionist minister Benny Elon.
Elon, who advocates the expulsion of non-Jews from Palestine, added that ''those who don't accept our rule here should be killed.''
Heeding the settlers' call for further persecution of Palestinians, the Israeli occupation army on Sunday destroyed six Palestinian homes in al-Khalil and the nearby towns of Yatta and Dura.
The ruthless demolitions rendered more than sixty Palestinian men, women and children homeless.
In addition, Zionist Prime Minister Ariel Sharon declared during a brief visit to the town Sunday that hundreds of Palestinian homes ought to be destroyed to create what he called ''demographic Jewish continuity'' between the settlement of Kiryat Arba'a and the small Jewish enclaves in the city.
Sharon said Israel should take advantage of ''current atmosphere'' to strengthen Jewish settlement activity in the city.
Meanwhile, the Zionist chief of staff Moshe Ya'alon, who also visited the city, ordered his troops to step up acts of repression against the inhabitants of Hebron.
Ya'alon reportedly instructed the Israeli army to destroy more homes and open fire on any Palestinian violating the collective house arrest imposed on the inhabitants of al-Khalil.
Al-Khalil was placed under a hermetic curfew for the past 48 hours and Palestinians seen in the streets are shot at by Israeli soldiers patrolling the city aboard armored personnel carriers with heavy machineguns mounted on them.
Moreover, army snipers have been posted on strategic rooftops, ostensibly to ''enforce the curfew.''
So far, the Israeli army carried out mass arrests and indulged in widespread acts of vandalism and ransacking.
Jewish settlers were also ''granted time to vent their anger and frustration'' by attacking Palestinian civilians and vandalizing their businesses and property.
Initially, Israeli officials and media sought to mislead the world public opinion by falsely claiming that Palestinian guerillas had attacked Jewish worshipers.
However, after the deliberate disinformation had its public relations effect, the Israeli press, including the settler press, admitted that the Islamist guerillas had targeted only crack Israeli soldiers and paramilitary settlers.
Israel considers all forms of Palestinian resistance against Israeli occupation and apartheid acts of terror irrespective of whether the people targeted are soldiers, armed settlers or civilians.
Palestinians argue that they have an inalienable right to resist the Israeli military occupation with all means at their disposal.