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RAMALLAH, January 25, 2014 (WAFA) – Israeli settlers torched Saturday a sit-in tent set up on the land of Nabi Samuil village to the northwest of Jerusalem to protest the Israeli taking over of the village land, a local activist said.

Eid Barakat, a local activist, said that several Israeli settlers raided the village in the morning hours and torched tires inside the sit-in tent that was set up in protest of the confiscation of the village land as well to protest taking over of a mosque belonging to the village under the pretext of renovation.

Barakat added that the villagers would continue their sit-in in order to convey to the world the message that they are being ethnically cleansed by the Israeli occupation forces, which seek to isolate and control the village which has a total resident population of almost 300 Palestinians.

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