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Israeli settlers attack West Bank villages, pepper spray elderly Palestinian
Israeli settlers attacked West Bank villages, including pepper-spraying an elderly Palestinian man in Abu Njeim southeast of Bethlehem. Settlers, supported by the Israeli army, assaulted villagers in al-Maghayyir and Abu Falah, detained two farmers tending their land, and attacked the western outskirts of al-Maghayyir. Israeli forces also raided the Solomon’s Pools tourist area in Bethlehem without reported casualties.
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