RUSSIA TODAY
Israeli settlers and radical rights groups are gathering in the West Bank to protest the Palestinians’ drive for sovereignty at the UN. Police and the armed forces fear the mass marches might turn violent if settlers enter Palestinian lands.
Associated Press reports Israeli settlers in the West Bank have set fire to acres of agricultural land and cut down olive, fig and almond trees.
Settlers are marching to Palestinian villages, Arab villages, to lay claim to the land, RT’s Paula Slier reports from the Israeli settlement of Itamah on the West Bank.
Seven hundred people are expected to turn out for what is expected to become the largest rally, dubbed “the sovereignty demonstration”, planned to reach Palestinian city of Nablus for Tuesday.
Similar marches are happening in several Israeli settlements across the West bank.
Palestinian officials said Tuesday that settler attacks on Palestinian property have doubled in the past year, reports the Associated Press.
But for several months the Israeli police and defense forces have been gearing up to possible protests from Palestinians over their aspirations for sovereignty.
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