Day and night, Palestinians in the West Bank’s Burqa village guard their homes
By Reuters
09 January 2022 |
4:59 pm
Tensions escalate between Palestinians in the West Bank village of Burqa and Israeli settlers after Palestinian gunmen killed an Israeli man in the area on December 16, and settlers were accused of attacking Arab villages in the aftermath.
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