Olmert: Settlers who attacked Palestinians in Hebron carried out 'pogrom'
By JERUSALEM POST STAFF
West Bank settlers who attacked Palestinians in Hebron carried out a "pogrom," Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said during Sunday's weekly cabinet meeting.
Settlers went on a rampage after IDF forces evicted a group of squatters from a contested building in the West Bank city of Hebron.
Video footage supplied by a human rights group showed a settler firing shots at Palestinian rock-throwers from close range, hitting two of them. A second settler is also seen opening fire.
Palestinians said that in all 17 Palestinians were wounded in the clashes, five of them by gunfire.
Olmert told his Cabinet on Sunday that the incidents have "no name other than pogrom" and that he was "ashamed."
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