Israeli occupiers set Palestinian home in occupied West Bank on fire with mother, daughter inside

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Israeli occupiers set fire to a Palestinian home in the Hebron governorate in the occupied West Bank on Thursday while a mother and her daughter were inside, according to local sources.

Aliya al-Nawajaa, the owner of the burned home, told Anadolu Agency that five masked occupiers attacked her house at dawn in the Khirbet al-Fara area of the city of Yatta.

She said one of the occupiers opened the window of the bedroom where she was sleeping with her daughter and threatened her and her family.

The attackers then set fire to the bedroom, causing the flames to spread rapidly before she could put them out, Nawajaa said.

She added that she immediately woke her daughter and they barely managed […]

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