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Symbolic image: Israeli army seals off Christian village Taybeh after settler attacksSymbolic image

Israeli army seals off Christian village Taybeh after settler attacks

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The Israeli military has closed the Palestinian Christian village of Taybeh in the occupied West Bank, citing repeated settler attacks. The measure was reported on Sunday, a day after settlers stormed a mosque near Hebron.

Reuters reported the closure on Sunday, 9 August, and The Hindu carried it on Monday; both accounts are brief and give no duration for the measure. Palestinian Christians say settler pressure is driving them out of the West Bank, and residents near Bethlehem have told Al Jazeera that settlers attack them daily. The Israeli military has said it will examine footage of a soldier striking a Palestinian.

Mosque raid near Hebron

Settlers beat worshippers and fired live ammunition into the air at a mosque in the Al Yalatia neighbourhood of Idna on Saturday, 8 August, the Palestinian agency Wafa reported. Soldiers then drove seven congregants out with live rounds, stun grenades and toxic spray and arrested them, among them five elderly men and the imam Mutaz Saadi Tmaizi.

798 attacks counted in July

The Commission of Resistance against the Wall and Settlements counted at least 798 settler attacks and 1,458 Israeli army operations in the West Bank last month, saying the two are linked.

Other opinions

Telesur, the only outlet detailing the mosque raid, speaks of the 'Zionist military' and 'settler terrorism'; Reuters and The Hindu keep to the army's stated reason, and China's Global Times covers the West Bank only with a settlement construction photo.

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