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Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GoogleIsraeli settlers demolished around 15 Palestinian homes and an animal pen in a village near Jericho in the West Bank, residents and activists say.
The structures, several of them tin shacks, were torn down in Al‑Duyuk Al‑Tahta yesterday, amid rising settler violence that has repeatedly forced families to flee.
The latest violence came days after Israel’s security cabinet approved measures to tighten control over the West Bank, paving the way for further settlement expansion.
“About 50 settlers arrived, forced everyone out of the houses and began demolishing them. Then they took everything — even the chickens,” village resident Mustafa Kaabneh, who has lived in the area for nearly two decades, tells AFP.
عصابات المستوطنين بحماية جيش الاحتلال يهدمون بالجرافات 15 منزلًا للفلسطينيين في منطقة اسطيح الديوك التحتا غرب مدينة أريحا، ويسرقون مركباتهم ومصاغ ذهبيا وأموالًا من داخل المنازل بعد إجبار العائلات على الخروج منها pic.twitter.com/3TfcjOAulQ
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He says most of the settlers were armed and masked and were accompanied by an Israeli army vehicle before returning with a bulldozer.
The Israeli military does not immediately respond to AFP’s request for comment.
The Times of Israel Community.