Settler Rampage: Five Killed - One Tortured to Death LAW ~ October 9, 2000 In the past two days, Israeli settlers have been on the rampage. Armed, protected and supported by Israeli troops, the Israeli settlers have killed five Palestinian civilians in the past twenty-four hours; three killed in the occupied Palestinian territory and two in the city of Nazareth in Israel. Around one thousand Israeli extremist settlers from Natzrat Elite (Higher Nazareth), supported by the Israeli police, attacked East Nazareth; they broke into the homes of the Palestinian residents, and fired at Palestinian civilians killing Omar Ikawi, 42, and Wisam Yazbik, 26, and wounding thirty people, five of them critically. The deaths of Ikawi and Yazbik raise the death toll of Palestinians within the Green Line, (in Israel) to 13. In the occupied Palestinian territory, Israeli settlers have killed three Palestinians. Israeli settlers murdered Fahid Abu Baker, 23, from Bedia, Salfeet, in the occupied territories, on October 7, 2000. Settlers burned the body of Sayil Swaidan, 25, from Azoon, Qalqilia who disappeared during a settlers' attack on the Palestinian town. Farmers found the corpse of Swaidan in an olive feild. Swaidan had been shot in the back of his head, but it is not clear whether this was the cause of death. The body of Isam Hamad, 36, from Um Safa, Ramallah, was found in a field near his village. An eyewitness stated that he saw Hamad driving to his farm when an Israeli military vehicle stopped and took him away. Hamad was found dead today (October 9, 2000) in the morning near Pisgot settlement. Isam Hamad had been tortured to death. There is evidence that he was electrocuted, burned with a hot iron, and attacked with an axe. Law has asked a medical examiner to prepare a full report. For the past couple of days settlers attacked Palestinian citizens and their property and their homes. They used firearms in their attacks while the occupation army turned a blind eye to their aggressive acts. They attacked the Old City of Jerusalem and some parts of Shufat, Hizma, Shufat refugees' camp, Anata, Al Isawiyi, Al Ram, Dahiyit Al Bareed, and Harit Al Aqbat as well as Hebron and the main road junctions. This often occurred in sight of the Israeli army. LAW Society warns against the aggressive attacks of these racist and extreme Israeli settlers against the Palestinian people within the Green Line and the West Bank. It condemns the despicable crimes the Israeli police have committed against the Palestinian civilians. LAW condemns the support given to settlers by Israeli occupation army. LAW Society views the bloody homicides that the occupation army commits against the Palestinian civilians as opening the doors for settlers and the extreme racists to commit more crimes and cause more bloodshed. This is the consequence of years of arming settlers and the building of military arsenals in settlements. Henceforth, LAW Society demands the following: First: the government of Israel must bring the extremist and racist settlers, who attacked Nazareth, to justice, Second: the government of Israel must bring the Israeli police chiefs, who gave orders to kill the people of Nazareth, to justice, Third: the Israeli settlers in the occupied territories must be disarmed and their criminals brought to justice, Fourth: LAW repeats its demand that Israel comply with the implementation of the Geneva Conventions of 1949 protecting civilians. Fifth: LAW expresses its dismay and disbelief for the international silence towards the crimes in the occupied territories and within the Green Line against the Palestinian people. 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