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IDF soldiers gave out orders Saturday informing Palestinians of Israel’s plans to confiscate 3,176 acres (12,852 dunams) around the West Bank village of Beit Iksa for military purposes, Palestinian media reported. Beit Iksa residents said to Ma’an news agency that soldiers at a checkpoint distributed the orders, signed by head of the IDF Central Command Gen. Nitzan Alon. The orders gave the residents until the end of 2017 to leave the land in question. They also said that soldiers informed the Beit Iksa residents that an IDF liaison would come on Monday to explain which parcels of land would be...

Dozens of Palestinian Authority Arabs re-entered a demolished outpost near Jerusalem and started to rebuild it, the Bethlehem-based Ma’an news agency reported. The illegal outpost, which Arabs have named al-Karamah (Dignity), was established last Friday near the PA Arab village of Beit Iksa, located between the Ramot and Mevasseret Zion neighborhoods of Jerusalem. On Saturday, the Arabs who set up the outpost said they planned to erect more tents in the outpost, as well as finish the construction of a small mosque in the encampment. The Arabs have said that the reason for the outpost is the fact that Beit...

Aharon Rabin, an eyewitness to the terrorist stabbing that left 17-year-old Yehuda Ne'emad bleeding on a street in the quiet Jerusalem neighborhood of Ramot on Sabbath afternoon, spoke with Arutz Sheva TV Saturday night about the incident. "I heard shouts," he said. "The victim's brother ran and told me that an Arab had stabbed his brother. Quickly I ran upstairs and called MDA (Magen David Adom emergency rescue service -ed.)." Ne'emad was treated at the scene and then rushed to Hadassah Ein Kerem Medical Center, where he is out of immediate danger following surgery for multiple stab wounds. He is...