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When they were allowed to return 38 days later, villagers said, they found their homes ransacked and half destroyed, and the fledgling signs of a permanent Israeli presence.

Last month, some villagers pelted the cats with stones to stop such attacks, The New Indian Express newspaper reported.

Mayada began to count off the dead she and surviving villagers had found in the houses nearby before stopping at the thought of one her neighbors, a 15-year-old boy.

A Harris's hawk that has been repeatedly attacking villagers has been captured by a resident with the same name.

Back in the game, there are dozens more of these identical villagers standing on the sidelines.