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November 19, 2010       Share:    

Source: http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3986648,00.html

Seven Foreign Nationals Arrested for Setting Fire to Jewish Land in West Bank

(Ynet News) Yair Altman - Twelve anarchists - five Israelis and seven foreign nationals - were arrested by Israeli security forces Thursday on suspicion that they had set fire to a field owned by Jews at Bat Ayin in the West Bank. The fire consumed some 50 dunams (about 12 acres) of land. At 8 a.m., a group of 30 anarchists, accompanied by photographers from Al-Jazeera television, arrived at the site, set the field on fire, and planted olive trees in the torched soil. "When the olive trees grow, the Civil Administration has a difficult time determining who the land belongs to," said one local resident. The land has been set on fire three times over the past few weeks by anarchists. "This has been going on for a year and a half now, on an almost weekly basis," said Yaki Morag, head of security for the village. "Yesterday and the day before anarchists burned 90-year-old trees on land that belongs to the Jewish National Fund near Kfar Etzion."

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