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The Palestinian Authority's official
news agency Wafa says Israel is using
rats to drive Arab families out of
their homes in the Old City of Jerusalem.
Has the Palestinian Authority...
Has the Palestinian Authority
smelled a rat in east Jerusalem?
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In the past the news agency,
which is controlled and funded
by PA President Mahmoud Abbas's office,
has accused Israel of using wild pigs
to drive Palestinians out of their homes
and fields in the West Bank.
In the re****ts,
Palestinians were quoted by the
agency as saying that they had
seen Israelis release herds of
wild pigs, which later attacked them.
But this is the first time that
Palestinians have spoken of rats
being used against them.
"Rats have become an Israeli weapon
to displace and expel Arab residents
of the occupied Old City of Jerusalem,"
Wafa re****ted under the title,
"Settlers flood the Old City
of Jerusalem with rats."
The re****t continued:
"Over the past two months,
dozens of settlers come to
the alleyways and streets of
the Old City carrying iron
cages full of rats.
They release the rats,
which find shelter in
open sewage systems."
Wafa quoted unnamed Arab residents
as saying that they had tried to
eliminate the rats with various
poisons, but to no avail.
Israel's goal was to
"increase the suffering
of the [Arabs] in Jerusalem
by turning their lives into
a real tragedy and forcing
them to evict their homes
and leave the city," Hasan Khater,
secretary-general of the
Islamic-Christian Front
in Jerusalem, was quoted as saying.
Jerusalem Municipality spokesman Gidi
Schmerling said that the re****t was
"pure fiction," and had no connection to reality.
Etgar Lefkovits contributed to this re****t
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