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Settlers occupy empty house in Hebron, claim ownership
Mar 19, 2007, 23:03 GMT
Tel Aviv - Scores of Israeli settlers entered an empty house in the divided West Bank city of Hebron Monday night and said they had purchased the building via a Jordanian company for 700,000 US dollars.
The settlers reportedly showed documents to that effect, but the owner of the house told Israel Army Radio that he had never sold the property.
'The house is mine,' Fiaz Rajabi said.
The Israeli army said it was looking into the incident.
The Jerusalem Post reported that the settlers said they intended for the house to be a memorial to 12 Israeli soldiers who were killed nearby in 2002 in a gunfight with Islamic Jihad militants.
Around 500 Jews live in a separate enclave among 160,000 Palestinians in the divided flashpoint city.
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This incident does show the entire world, who's responsible for the carnage in the Middle East: I S R A E L, I S R A E L and again I S R A E L:
So they moved into an empty house! i have worked in the middle east and when the palestineans leave home to work or shop - the israeli's move in and throw out their belongings and the army does nothing! the israeli's don't want peace, instead they are carrying out ethnic cleansoing!
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SamMar 20th, 2007 - 00:21:34
Only two times in the world when your neighbor really doesn't matter. At birth and at death. 160K Palestinians and 500 Jews, and yet still no peace. I wonder why.
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