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Settlers filmed torching Palestinian fields in northern West Bank
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GoogleThe B’Tselem rights group releases footage purportedly showing Israeli settlers setting fire to fields belonging to Palestinians in the northern West Bank last Friday.
The fires were started near the villages of Asira al-Qibliya and Urif, with locals blaming residents of the Yitzhar settlement.
B’Tselem says IDF soldiers at the scene did not allow the Palestinians to reach the fires in order to put them out after clashes broke out between the residents.
A Yitzhar spokesman charged at the time that the neighboring Palestinians had been responsible for setting fields belonging to the settlement on fire before the clashes began.
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