APAwire - APAwire CLIENTS ONLY, Nablus – 09 July 2021. Palestinian protesters clash with Israeli forces in the town of Beita near the West Bank city of Nablus, opposite the newly-established Israeli wildcat settler outpost of Eviatar.
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Amid ongoing rallies in the Palestinian village protesting the newly-established settler outpost of Eviatar (background) on a nearby hill. - Israeli settlers left the wildcat outpost in adherence to an agreement struck with nationalist premier Naftali Bennett's new government.
The hilltop area where they have established a settlement lies near Nablus in the northern West Bank, Palestinian territory occupied by Israel since 1967. Under the terms of the deal, those temporary homes will remain, and the Israeli army will establish a presence in the area.
Palestinians usually hold protests against colonial Israeli settlements and other discriminatory policies following the weekly Friday prayer every week, when most Palestinians are on their weekend.
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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