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Israeli Troops Bar Naji Abu Awad From Turmus Ayya Home, Fire Tear Gas
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Naji Abu Awad barred from entering Turmus Ayya home; tear gas fired. Israeli forces ordered family out of their home near Ramallah.
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Turmus Ayya home barred
The Israeli army prevented Palestinian American Naji Abu Awad from entering his home in the occupied West Bank town of Turmus Ayya, north of Ramallah, on Thursday and fired tear gas in the area, Abu Awad told Anadolu Agency.
Abu Awad said he arrived carrying an American flag and his luggage, but Israeli troops stationed inside prevented him from entering and told him the area had been designated a military zone.
Abu Awad said the soldiers threatened to arrest him and justified their presence in the house with a document written in Hebrew, which he said contained neither a court order nor authorization allowing them to remain.
Abu Awad said Israeli forces first entered the house on Oct. 25 after opening its gate, then disabled surveillance cameras, returned the following day, and remained in the house without telling the family why they were there or when they intended to leave.
Abu Awad described being prevented from entering his own home as “the worst feeling ever,” saying he was unable to put his emotions into words.
Jalud burned homes court
Israel Police announced Wednesday that it arrested four suspects over the September attack in Jalud, south of Nablus, that prevented a Palestinian family from returning to its homes after the houses were burned. The state told the High Court of Justice that repairing the family’s burned houses would require about three months of work, and it said security forces would carry out repeated enforcement operations and patrols to prevent renewed Israeli takeovers. The High Court said the state largely did not dispute the sequence of events, and it described how, on July 22, two members of the Tubasi family and their households were forced to leave after what the court described as a prolonged de facto siege.
The attempted return on September 28-29 turned violent after more than 100 Israeli extremists attacked the forces, and the family’s two houses were burned while three Border Police officers were injured and the family was evacuated. The petitioners’ lawyer, Ghiath Nasser, told the court he did not know who had burned the house, and police said two suspects aged 16 and 17 were released under restrictive conditions including a 60-day order to stay away from the area.
Outposts demolished, enforcement
The Israeli military said it demolished two illegal settlement outposts in the West Bank over the past day, with Civil Administration soldiers and Border Police officers operating near the Palestinian villages of Atara and Wadi al-Rahim. The military said the outposts were “the source of repeated violent and illegal activity,” and it said forces dismantled and seized illegal construction components, temporary structures, vehicles and tents. In a separate demolition, Border Police forces and Civil Administration personnel demolished the illegal settlement outpost of Kfar Tarfon, north of Ramallah in the central West Bank, overnight, settler activists said.
Settler activists said footage showed Border Police officers and bulldozers at 3 a.m., and they said the law enforcement personnel cleared out residents and demolished homes as well as a sheep pen, a chicken coop, and a communal dining room. The Times of Israel said more than 200 illegal settlement outposts have been established in the West Bank during the four-year term of the outgoing government, and it said a small percentage are set up without coordination and are often the target of enforcement by the Civil Administration.