APAwire - APAwire CLIENTS ONLY, Nablus- 06 June 2021. Palestinian protesters clash with Israeli forces against Israeli settlements in Beita, in the Israeli-occupied West Bank of Nablus
01-SOUNDBITE:Palestinian activist, Naseem al-Moallem
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The Israeli occupation issued a decision to evacuate the colonial settlement atop Jabal Sbeih (Sbeih Mountain)
Issa Barham, in his 40s, and Zakaria Hamayel, 28, were shot dead by Israeli occupation forces and dozens of others were wounded in Beita in the past two weeks.
The number of settlers living in Jewish-only colonial settlements across occupied East Jerusalem and the West Bank in violation of international law has jumped to over 700,000 and colonial settlement expansion has tripled since the signing of Oslo Accords in 1993.
Israel’s nation-state law, passed in July 2018, enshrines Jewish supremacy, and states that building and strengthening the colonial settlements is a “national interest.”
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