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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

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Sun Jun 12, 2022, 07:29 PM Jun 2022

Largest Palestinian displacement in decades looms after Israeli court ruling

MASAFER YATTA, West Bank (Reuters) - Some 1,200 Palestinians in the occupied West Bank region of Masafer Yatta face the risk of forced removal to make way for an army firing zone after a decades-long legal battle that ended last month in Israel's highest court.

The ruling opened the way for one of the largest displacements since Israel captured the territory in the 1967 Middle East war. But residents are refusing to leave, hoping their resilience and international pressure will keep Israel from carrying out the evictions.

"They want to take this land from us to build settlements," said Wadha Ayoub Abu Sabha, a resident of al-Fakheit, one of a group of hamlets where Palestinian shepherds and farmers claim a historic connection to the land.

"We're not leaving," she said.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/largest-palestinian-displacement-in-decades-looms-after-israeli-court-ruling/ar-AAYmtNv

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Largest Palestinian displacement in decades looms after Israeli court ruling (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Jun 2022 OP
The land theft comtinues malaise Jun 2022 #1
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