Palestinians clash with the Israeli army in the northern West Bank, near the evicted Israeli settlement of Homesh. Palestinians were commemorating the upcoming anniversary of Land Day by planting trees near the settlement when the Israeli army supressed their activities and clashes began. Homesh is an Israeli settlement which was established in 1978 on 173 acres of confiscated land belonging to the nearby Palestinian villages of Burqa, north of Nablus, Silat ad-Dhahr, on the west of Jenin, and Bazaria on the east of Tulkarem. The residents of Homesh were forcefully evicted from their homes and
Palestinians clash with the Israeli army in the northern West Bank, near the evicted Israeli settlement of Homesh. Palestinians were commemorating the upcoming anniversary of Land Day by planting trees near the settlement when the Israeli army supressed their activities and clashes began. Homesh is an Israeli settlement which was established in 1978 on 173 acres of confiscated land belonging to the nearby Palestinian villages of Burqa, north of Nablus, Silat ad-Dhahr, on the west of Jenin, and Bazaria on the east of Tulkarem. The residents of Homesh were forcefully evicted from their homes and their houses demolished as part of the Israeli disengagement from the Gaza Strip and from an area in northern Samaria in the West Bank in IDF though maintained a requisition order to impede Palestinians from returning to the land for eight years, while the Homesh Yeshiva organization has endeavoured to retain some hold on the area by funding an illegal outpost which has been repeatedly built on the site over the years. The attempt of Palestinians of replanting the area and grazing sheep and goats on the hills around the settlement has usually been met by the violence of settlers and soldiers, thus preventing Palestinians to regain control of their land. The international community considers Israeli settlements in the West Bank illegal under international law
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