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Settlers damage Palestinian property in West Bank, Jerusalem
BETHLEHEM (Ma'an) -- Israeli settlers damaged Palestinian property in the West Bank and East Jerusalem Tuesday as Israeli forces were heavily deployed and clashes broke out across the Palestinian territory, an official said.Ghassan Daghlas, a Palestinian official who monitors settler activity in the northern West Bank, told Ma'an that Israeli settlers smashed equipment belonging to three stone crushing plants in the Nablus district.
The factories, located near the Huwwara military checkpoint in southern Nablus, belong to Naji Yousef al-Asmar, Bassam Muhammad Hassan, and Abu al-Abed Tabania, Daghlas said.
In East Jerusalem, right-wing Israeli Jews punctured the tires of several vehicles belonging to Palestinians and sprayed anti-Arab graffiti in Beit Safafa, Israeli media reported.
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