Illegal Israeli settlers have increased incursions into the Palestinian town of Taybeh, the last fully Christian community in the occupied West Bank, the town’s Latin parish priest said Thursday, Anadolu reports. Father Bashar Fawadleh told Vatican Radio that the latest incidents mark a shift, with attacks expanding beyond the town’s eastern areas. He said Israeli police responded about an hour after being notified, but settlers returned shortly after being removed. “The police came one hour after our phone call … after that they came back in 15 or 30 minutes. And now they are inside the land,” Fawadleh said. He warned the incursions may be part of a broader effort to expand settlement control along a corridor stretching from east of […]
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