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   *** *Settlers force way into Jiftlik Agricultural Station* ***

                          by Adel Abu Ne'emeh

  A PNA minister was arrested on monday by the Israeli army following
  clashes between  Palestinian farmers  and soldiers at the  Jiftlik
  Agricultural Station near Jericho.

  The Minister of Agriculture Selah Abdel Jawwad said he  was shoved
  into a military jeep, and  searched before being  released an hour
  later. "It is no surprise that the  Netanyahu government  shows no
  hesitation in arresting a minister of the PNA," he said.

  "This is a government that goes about destroying the  Oslo Accords
  by any number of means  -  settlements, house  demolation, and the
  freezing of funds that belong to the Palestinians," he explained.

  The clashes occured after scores of Palestinian farmers and emplo-
  yees of the Ministery of Agriculture gathered at the Jiftlik Agri-
  cultural Station to thwart a group of settlers, backed by the Is-
  raeli army, from taking over the experimental site. The protest had
  been called for by the Ministry of Agriculture.

  According to AFP, some 300 Palestinians, headed by employees from
  the Ministry of Agriculture, attended.

  Clashes broke out after the soldiers, using truncheons, tried to
  evict the Palestinian from the site. Several Palestinians, included
  by Reuters photographer Hassan Titi, suffered slight concussion.

  "This is a barbarous act especially as the sit-in was peaceful,"
  Abdel Jawwad said, noting that two Director Generals of the Ministry
  and several farmers, advanced in age, were beaten up.

  Abdel explained that the sit-in was response to a foray made by the
  settlers last Friday.

  "They started tilling the land in full violation of the clauses of
  the Oso Accords which said that the station would be returned to the
  Palestinians in August 1995," Abdel Jawwad said.

  Sources in the Palestinian Liaison Bureau said that the talks bet-
  ween the two sides had come to litle. The Israelis had insisted on
  keeping the station in the hands of the settlers. They declared
  Jiftlik a closed military area. The palestinians were forced at gun-
  point back onto the trucks on which they have arrived, and taken to
  the Palestinian-controlled village of Al-Aujah, north of Jericho.


  THE JERUSALEM TIMES, September 5, 1997

  Wachtberg, 09.09.1997                      IM / Forum for Palestine

  We mean, settler go home, you did come from. Sooner or later, this
  will be achieved!!!

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