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Palestinians in this village suffer daily settler raids of Muslim shrines

While the Israeli settlers stepped up their storming of Muslim shrines in Kifl Haris village in Salfit governorate, Palestinians perceive that such raids pave the way for the seizure of additional lands in the town.
Israeli soldiers detain a Palestinian protester as an Israeli settler hurls rocks at Palestinians during a demonstration against the expansion of settlements in the town of Salfit, near the Israeli settlement of Ariel, West Bank, Nov. 30, 2020.

RAMALLAH, West Bank — On the evening of March 10, Israeli soldiers prevented Issam Abu Yaacoub, mayor of Kifl Haris, a village located in Salfit governorate in the northern West Bank, from accessing his village through the main street and demanded he take a bypass road because the settlers had raided the village.

Each time the settlers raid the village, the Israeli army imposes a total curfew and deploys a large number of soldiers and vehicles in preparation for the entry of settlers that lasts until dawn. 

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