Huwara

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Huwara or Howwarah (Arabic: حُوّارة, romanized: Ḥuwwārah, pronounced [ħʊwˈwaːra] ) is a Palestinian town located in the Nablus Governorate of the State of Palestine. Located in the northern Israeli-occupied West Bank, Huwara is on the main road connecting Nablus southwards to Ramallah and Jerusalem, approximately 4 miles (6 km) from Jacob's Well. According to the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics, the town had a population of 6,659 in 2017. Huwara is a flashpoint town in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Huwara is on the main road to nearby Israeli settlements, leading to frequent clashes between Israeli soldiers and settlers and local Palestinians. Most notably, two Israeli civilian-settlers passing the town were shot by a Palestinian gunman in a shooting attack. In response to the shooting attack, the town was rampaged by hundreds of Israeli settlers, who torched Palestinian businesses and houses, leaving one dead and one hundred Palestinians injured. Israel constructed a bypass road around Huwara to avoid having the Israeli settlers pass through the Palestinian town.

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Huwara is a Palestinian town in the West Bank that became a flashpoint after a shooting attack near it. Through October 6, 2023 the opening said the attack was denounced by Israel but was praised by Palestinian militant groups. Today that sentence is gone from the opening, and the word militant survives only in the general description of the town as a flashpoint, appearing three times in the body. A reader arriving now learns the town sits on a road to Israeli settlements and not that Palestinian militant groups praised the attack that triggered the events there.

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