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Jefferson23

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Thu Oct 2, 2014, 11:24 AM Oct 2014

Israel settlers enter into S. Hebron Hills Palestinian village escorted by army


A group of settlers entered the archeological site of At Tuwani in the early morning of September 17 2014 escorted by two army jeeps


21 September 2014

The following update comes from the Palestinian village At Tuwani comes from Operation Dove, an Italian NGO that focuses on the South Hebron Hills.

UPDATE:
Israeli settlers entered into At Tuwani village escorted by army, South Hebron Hills area

At Tuwani – On September 17, at 5:30 a.m. three cars with fourteen Israeli settlers came into the Palestinian village of At Tuwani, escorted by two army jeep.

The settlers entered in the archeological site located between several Palestinian homes, in the middle of the village, one of them was armed. At Tuwani inhabitants started to gather at the closest Palestinian home and the owner of the house demanded to the Israeli army explanations about the happening. After the villagers nonviolent pressure on the Israelis both settlers and soldiers, they left the village at 6:15 a.m.

This is just the last of several ongoing provocations carried out by the Israeli army and settlers to which the South Hebron Hills Palestinian communities keep reacting in a nonviolent way.

http://rhr.org.il/eng/2014/09/israel-settlers-enter-into-palestinian-in-s-hebron-hills-village-escorted-by-army/

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