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South Florida Sun Sentinel · 22 June 2023

CP-2023-042

In West Bank, Palestinian towns stormed by settlers

Israeli airstrike on car adds to unrest amid crackdown

By Isabel Debre, Associated Press, Turmus Ayya, West Bank

In West Bank, Palestinian towns stormed by settlers — South Florida Sun Sentinel, 22 June 2023
South Florida Sun Sentinel · 22 June 2023

Transcribed from the clipping

“TURMUS AYYA, West Bank — Hundreds of Israeli settlers stormed into a Palestinian town in the occupied West Bank on Wednesday, setting fire to dozens of cars and homes… ‘It was terrifying, we just saw mobs of people in the streets, masked, armed,’ said Mohammed Suleiman, 56, a Palestinian-American who lives in Chicago and was visiting his hometown. Suleiman blamed the Israeli military, saying the soldiers turned their guns on the Palestinian residents instead of the vandals… Abdulkarim Abdulkarim, 44, a resident of Ohio, said his family’s four cars were burned and house damaged. ‘They call us terrorists, but here you have terrorism supported by the government,’ he said… Tayem Abu Awwad, 15, a U.S. citizen from Northern California, was shot in an attack last week… Mayor Lafi Adeeb said some 30 houses and 60 cars were partly or totally burned…”

Context added by this archive

Turmus Ayya is a town where many residents hold American passports, so the wire copy is full of Chicago, Ohio and Northern California. It is also the clearest instance in this deck of a Palestinian being quoted turning the word terrorism around.

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"In West Bank, Palestinian towns stormed by settlers," South Florida Sun Sentinel, 22 June 2023. Covering Palestine archive, CP-2023-042. https://coveringpalestine.org/archive/cp-2023-042

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This record is part of Covering Palestine, an archive of American and Anglophone newspaper clippings about Palestinians, 1812 to 2022. Researched and assembled by Maria Robles.

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