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Tuesday, July 21, 2009

As reports say W.B settlements evictions are imminent, settlers continue to attack Palestinians

Ghassan Bannoura, IMEMC
Settlers' attacks targeting Palestinians were reported on Tuesday in a number of West Bank areas.

On Tuesday settlers attacked Palestinian cars bear the central West Bank city of Ramallah, damage was reported but no injuries.

The attacks started on Monday when the Israeli military evacuated a number of settlers outpost in northern West Bank.

In Hebron settlers stoned cars lat on Monday night, moreover set fire and damaged crops of Palestinians farmers near Nablus city earlier on Monday morning. Three Palestinians and a soldier were injured by the settlers' attacks on Monday.

Israeli media sources reported on Tuesday that the military is planning to evacuate 23 settlers outposts in the coming few days. The reports said that the military and police have conducted exercises to do all evections in one day.

Meanwhile the military issued a statement saying that the exercises were regular ones and it has neither plans nor orders to evacuate those settlements.

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