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Disaster prompts president to lift moratorium on death penalty, a move human rights groups say is ‘a retreat into barbarism’
ISRAELI troops evicted scores of Jewish settlers yesterday from two buildings they had taken over in the occupied West Bank city of Hebron.
The troops removed 80 people who had stormed the buildings on Thursday and then they closed access to the sites, Israeli Police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld said.
The buildings will remain shut until the courts determine who owns them, he said.
Labour's Emily Thornberry calls on PM to ban goods from Israel-held Palestinian territory
For those who lived in Yanoun, its disappearance is not just a local tragedy, but a stark symbol of escalating violence, displacement and impunity across the occupied West Bank, says JANE HARRIES