The entire village and estates of Bteikha, situated in the northern district of Palestine, have been sold to a Jewish group by their Syrian Arab owners, according to a report in a local Arabic daily. The area purveyed is about 70,000 dunams, or about 16,500 acres. The purchase price was 160,000pound ($900,000).
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