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Israeli forces bar Palestinians from farming on their Hebron lands
HEBRON (Ma'an) -- Israeli forces on Saturday prevented Palestinian farmers in the Hebron district from accessing their privately owned land, local popular committee spokespeople said.
Nidal al-Haddar, a spokesman for the popular committee in the southern Hebron district, told Ma'an that Palestinian farmers were sent home at gunpoint when they attempted to reach their lands in the Umm al-Arayis east of Yatta.
International solidarity activists, including Israelis, were also sent away from the land, al-Haddar said.
Land owner Issa Jabarin told Ma'an that settlers from the illegal Mitzpe Yair outpost had occupied his land in the area since 2000.
http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=677658
