The former mayor of Barcelona, Ada Colau, has denounced that the Israeli Army attacked this Tuesday the convoy in which he was traveling along with the Comuns MEP, Jaume Asens, in the environment of Nablus, in the West Bank.
“We have accompanied farmers who were merely making an attempt to select olives, however troopers from the Israeli Army arrived and with out saying a phrase, with out making an attempt to speak to anybody in any respect, they began to shoot numerous tear fuel indiscriminatelyeven at the top of individuals’s faces. They have additionally launched sound bombs indiscriminately,” he denounced in a video on social networks.
“Now they’ve detained a farmer and a journalist, they’ve separated them from the group of the worldwide delegation and the Human Rights volunteers who’re right here. This is unacceptable and violates all worldwide regulation.. It is insupportable that the worldwide group takes a stand, that is why many activists are right here,” careworn Colau, who warned that he’ll proceed in the West Bank: “We are usually not going to go away, we’re going to proceed accompanying these Palestinian households.”
Jaume Asens has additionally denounced the assault on his social networks: “The Israeli Army has launched tear fuel in opposition to our delegation of Human Rights whereas we accompanied Palestinians in the olive harvest,” he denounced on social networks.
“Now we’re in a scenario of tense calm. Some time in the past the Army arrived and fired deafening bullets and tear fuel“, not solely in opposition to the peasants, but additionally in opposition to the worldwide delegation, with out saying something,” explains Asens in a video recorded from the scene, the fields of Qusra, a rural space close to the West Bank metropolis of Nablus.
“It is about the olive harvest, which the farmers were making an attempt to do, as they’ve been making an attempt to do for a very long time, however the Army and the settlers forestall it. And our presence right here We thought it could possibly be one thing of a deterrent.but it surely has not been like that,” says the Catalan politician.
“We can verify that with out complying with worldwide regulationl, they’ve launched these tear fuel and these deafening bullets at face top. “It’s a reasonably tense scenario,” he says in the video.
Ada Colau and Jaume Asens arrived in Palestine this Monday in a worldwide emergency delegation to denounce violations of human rights and worldwide regulation in Israel’s battle in Gaza and the West Bank.
