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ISRAELI troops evicted scores of Jewish settlers yesterday from two buildings they had taken over in the occupied West Bank city of Hebron.
The troops removed 80 people who had stormed the buildings on Thursday and then they closed access to the sites, Israeli Police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld said.
The buildings will remain shut until the courts determine who owns them, he said.
Bezalel Smotrich’s measures to extend Israeli property law into the West Bank are a continuation of a decades-long project to dispossess Palestinians and preclude statehood, argues HUGH LANNING
For those who lived in Yanoun, its disappearance is not just a local tragedy, but a stark symbol of escalating violence, displacement and impunity across the occupied West Bank, says JANE HARRIES
RAMZY BAROUD looks at how entire West Bank communities have been shattered, their social and physical fabric deliberately dismantled by Israel to enable its formal annexation
