Settlers seize land near Nablus

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Nablus – Dozens of Israeli settlers seized control of 40 dunums (40,000 square meters) of Palestinian land south of the West Bank city of Nablus on Friday while Israeli soldiers looked on.

..... the settlers arrived on the land near the Huwwara military checkpoint at noon.The Israelis unloaded metal and barbed wire from trucks and fenced off the plot of land, which lies between the villages of Kafr Qalil and Burin. Soldiers stationed at the checkpoint did not intervene....

.......the occupied land belongs to the Saud and Abed Ar-Rahim families, and two other private citizens, Suleiman Qasem Sa’id Najjar and Adnan Yousef Qadus.

Settlers have launched dozens of violent attacks on Palestinians and their property in the Nablus area over the past several weeks. A recent upsurge in settler mobilization occurred when the Israeli government removed three structures from unauthorized settlement outposts. Full story