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Palestinian Family Fights To Remain in Israeli Settlement

With the help of human rights groups, Hani Awad has resisted Israeli attempts to evacuate him and his family from an Israeli settlement in the West Bank, Linah Alsaafin writes.
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In 2005, Israeli settlers had completed confiscating 5,000 dunums [about 1,250 acres] out of the Palestinian Salfit-based village of Mas-ha, which had been 8,000 [2,000 acres] dunums in size.

The villagers watched uneasily as Jewish caravans set up on their lands in the mid-1980s, which later fully expanded into the construction of three settlements: El Kana, Etz Efraim, and Sha’arei Tikvah.

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