Israeli Soldiers Pillage Home and Arrest 20 in a Pre-Dawn Raid on Kufer Qaddoum

Israeli Soldiers Pillage Home and Arrest 20 in a Pre-Dawn Raid on Kufer Qaddoum

Popular Struggle Coordination Committee

During the raid, soldiers pillaged jewelry and caused extensive damages to houses. Residents certain that arrests were made to quash protests in the village

April 5, 2012

Massive numbers of Israeli soldiers staged an extensive pre-dawn raid on the West Bank village of Kufer Qaddoum last night storming over a dozen houses. Twenty individuals, aged 16 to 38 were arrested from their beds at gunpoint fusion the raid.
Several of the raided houses were ransacked and left with extensive damages to their interior. Soldiers have gone as far as pillaging gold jewelry estimated in thousands of Shekels from the house belonging to Atta Shtawi, whose son Sabri was detained.
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Among those arrested are three minors - one 16 year-old and two 17 year-old - as well as Riad Shtewi, a member of the village's popular committee.
Villages from Kufer Qaddoum have been holding regular weekly demonstrations for the past 9 months in pforest of ongoing creeping land grab by the adjacent Jewish-only settlement of Qedummim and in demand that the main road to the village be reopened. The road has been sealed by the army at the beginning of the second intifada.
Protesters in Kufer Qaddoum are regularly faced by ever increasing levels of military violence, including the use of a military assault dog, which soldiers sicced at protesters two weeks ago.