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Tuesday, July 25, 2017
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Tuesday, July 25, 2017
Fifteen Israeli families squat illegally at contested Hebron home
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GoogleFifteen Israeli families, or some 100 people, enter the Machpela House in Hebron, a building they claim to have purchased, but whose purchase is contested by Palestinians.
The families briefly squatted in the building in 2012, but then-defense minister Ehud Barak ordered them removed and declared the site a closed military zone.
The squatters issue a statement demanding the government “proudly raise the banner of settlement and loyalty to the Land of Israel,” and call on it to allow them to remain in the building.
Security forces arrive at the scene and are preventing anyone else from entering the building.
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