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<p><strong>For the fourth consecutive day, the Israeli military   continued its operation targeting the northern West Bank village of   Awarta, near Nablus, on Wednesday. </strong></p>
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<p>Today  Israeli troops continued to search residents&#8217; homes, then arrested a  group of young men and women and took them to a nearby military base  taking DNA samples and fingerprints.</p>
<p>In what was described a  very strange move by the army, villagers told local news agencies that  in the early hours, troops were seen digging up graves in the village  cemetery. So far the Israeli army remains detaining 71 residents from  Awarta, among them a sixteen-year old Julia Awad. The army says the  operation is to find those responsible for the killing of a settler  family in the Itamar settlement last month. The settlement lies directly  above Awarta village.</p>
<p>In an earlier interview the head of the  village council, Khalis Awad, told PNN that his village is under  constant military operations since unknown assailants killed a father,  mother and three children in the settlement of Itamar.</p>
<p>Settlers and the army accused the villagers of Awarta of the killing, but no evidence has yet been provided.</p>
<p>In  related news: on Wednesday seven Palestinian men were arrested during  morning invasions targeting a number of West Bank communities. According  to local sources, the seven arrested were from the southern WB village  of Beit Omar, near Hebron, and from the Old City of Hebron itself. Other  invasions were reported in Ramallah and Jenin.</p>
<p><a href="http://english.pnn.ps/index.php?option=com_content&amp;task=view&amp;id=9880&amp;Itemid=64">Source</a>.</p>
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