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“The settlers came in the middle of the night, no one knew. By morning
they had paved a road up to the mountain, set up their tents, and had
soldiers protecting them,” Zafer Attayah, a resident of Kfar Ni’ma told
Mondoweiss. Ever since the settlers showed up two months ago, the
Palestinians from Risan’s three surrounding villages have been staging
weekly Friday protests on the mountain in attempts to stop the
confiscation. “We have to maintain our presence in the area,” Attayah
said. “They think they can just come and take the land, but we will not
make it easy for them.”