APAwire - APAwire CLIENTS ONLY, Ramallah - 28 May 2021. Palestinians take part in an anti-Israel rally near the settlement of Beit El near Ramallah in the occupied West Bank.
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Israeli settlers today took over three dunums of Palestinian-owned land in the village of Kisan, to the east of Bethlehem in the occupied West Bank, according to Ahmad Ghazal, the deputy mayor of the village.
This came only a day after the Israeli occupation authorities okayed the construction of 560 housing units in the illegal settlement of Maale Amos.
There are over 700,000 colonial Israeli settlers living in Jewish-only settlements across the West Bank in violation of international law, particularly the Fourth Geneva Convention which expressly bans the relocation of the occupying nation's civilian population to the land of the occupied.
Settler violence against Palestinians and their property is routine in the West Bank and is rarely prosecuted by Israeli authorities.
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