Ancient Samaritans celebrate different Sukkot in West Bank

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As Jewish people all around Israel are celebrating their traditional feast of Sukkot (Feast of Tabernacles), in northern West Bank, Samaritans, a small religious sect who consider themselves descendants of the ancient northern Kingdom of Israel, are also celebrating Sukkot, but in a somehow different way.

...As most of the Samaritans in Kiriyat Luza hold Palestinian citizenship, some even tend to call them "Palestinian Jews." "Speaking of our nationality, we are Palestinians, but regarding our religion, we believe in the Samaritan Torah, which is similar to the Jewish Torah, but has up to 7,000 differences between the two holy books," said Kohen.

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