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Tuesday, November 17, 2009

Palestinians return home, harassed by settlers

YNET
For 10 years, residents of the Palestinian village of Khirbet Bir al-'Idd in the Hebron area have been living with relatives for fear of being harassed by [Israeli] settlers. Last week, after receiving approval from the Israel Defense Forces, they returned to their homes, but say the attacks were renewed shortly afterwards.

..."It was meant to be a story with a happy ending," said Noga Eitan of Rabbis for Human Rights, "an unusual story in which the rule of law in the territories is being enforced. But like what happens in the territories often, as well as in places on which the Israeli court has delivered its ruling, people are acting like in a jungle here. We won't accept this, obviously." Full story