The Associated Press,
Published: December 7, 200
JERUSALEM: Prime Minister Ehud Olmert says Jews who attacked Palestinian civilians carried out a “pogrom.”
Settlers went on a rampage after Israeli forces evicted a group of squatters from a contested building in the West Bank city of Hebron.
Video footage supplied by an Israeli human rights group shows a settler firing shots at Palestinian rock-throwers from close range, hitting two of them. A second settler is also seen opening fire.
Palestinians said that in all 17 Palestinians were wounded in the clashes, five of them by gunfire.
Olmert told his Cabinet on Sunday that the incidents have “no name other than pogrom” and that he was “ashamed.”
Pogrom is a word most often used to describe mob attacks against Jews in Europe.
The two settlers caught on film have turned themselves in to police.
Source: International Herald Tribune, December 7, 2008
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