settlers
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Also on Friday, a number of settlers returned to set up a tent near the site - a day after an operation to disperse them from the area.
From BBC ● Aug. 14, 2026
An attempt by Israeli security forces to dislodge the settlers on Wednesday led to confrontations with a bigger group.
From BBC ● Aug. 14, 2026
The Israeli military said security forces dismantled two illegal outposts set up by settlers near the villages of Qusra and Jalud.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 13, 2026
Witnesses said that the settlers remained in the area.
From Barron's ● Aug. 13, 2026
In 1784 some of those settlers, led by John Sevier, seceded from North Carolina in the hope of creating a fourteenth state, which they named Franklin.
From "An Indigenous People’s History of the United States" by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
