9 Palestinians arrested after farming on land confiscated by settlers
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JERUSALEM (Ma'an) -- Two Palestinians were injured and eight were detained on Sunday after Israeli forces dispersed dozens who were planting trees on their confiscated land east of Jerusalem, a local official said.
Muhammad Salama, a council member of the village of Anata, told Ma'an that 100 people from the village were working on their land, which was seized by Israeli settlers in July 2013, when soldiers arrived that the scene.
"Shortly after the villagers arrived and started to dig and plant saplings, Israeli police officers stormed the area along with the settler and assaulted the villagers with pepper spray before detaining nine young men," Salama said.
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Salama said that an Israeli settlers had seized 400 dunams (100 acres) of land from Anata and surrounded the land with barbed wire.
The apartheid picnic rolls on: taking what it wants while protecting illegal settlers...all with the help of US tax dollars and indolence.
