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Hebron House Occupied on Eretz Land Day

Gulp

by
Marc Tracy
March 29, 2012
A religious settler peers out of the house in Hebron.(Menahem Kahana/AFP/Getty Images)
A religious settler peers out of the house in Hebron.(Menahem Kahana/AFP/Getty Images)

Tomorrow is Land Day, a traditional day of Palestinian protest against expropriation and occupation. So it’s a good thing that late last night a group of Jewish settlers in the particularly fraught West Bank city of Hebron moved in to a three-story house in a Palestinian neighborhood near the Cave of the Patriarchs (where Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob are ostensibly buried) in Hebron. “For us this was a provocation,” said an IDF source. “At this time this is problematic.” This will surely end well!

Marc Tracy is a staff writer at The New Republic, and was previously a staff writer at Tablet. He tweets @marcatracy.