Man Martyred, Arab MK Wounded In Naqab Village Clashes
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A Palestinian man was reportedly martyred and a Member of Knesset was wounded amid violent clashes -including an alleged car-ramming operation- that erupted during a planned home demolition early Wednesday morning in the Bedouin Palestinian town of Umm al-Hiran.
According to Zionist police sources, the driver of the 'ramming' vehicle was shot and martyred after driving into the police line in the southern town. Reports later revealed that the other person killed was an 'Israeli' officer.
Arab Joint List party leader MK Ayman Odeh was struck in the head by a sponge-tipped bullet in the clashes and several other people were seriously wounded in the clashes.
Local resident Raed Abu Jihad denied the alleged car-ramming was an attack, telling ‘Israel' Radio that police shot at the driver first, and his wounds prevented from stopping his car before it went into the officers.
Police descended on the village to evacuate buildings slated for demolition. They fired tear gas and rubber bullets to disperse the protesters.
The village has long been a flash point for clashes.
The roughly 700 residents of Umm al-Hiran are the descendants of a Bedouin clan that was removed from its original village in 1948, a site on which the illegal settlement of Kibbutz Shoval now sits.
Today, there are plans to replace the original Bedouin village with a town to be called Hiran. According to reports, the new town would have 2,400 settlement units, which would be filled largely by Jews from the nearby community of Meitar.
Source: News Agencies, Edited by website team
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