More on the arrests in Samaria

ARCHAEOLOGIST APPREHENSION UPDATE: IDF investigating PA confiscation of Israeli archaeologist gun in Area C. COGAT said that the archaeologists had sought and failed to receive IDF permission to visit the site precisely because of the Palestinian COVID-19 roadblock (Tovah Lazaroff, Jerusalem Post). With some clarifications to the earlier report. Not surprisingly, the story becomes more complicated as more of it comes out.

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