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This, too, would be lost when two convicts set fire to the roof during an escape attempt on March 28, 1850.
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Arkansas Online, 22 Nov. 2025
Jerusalem — Israeli settlers set fire to cars in the latest arson in the occupied West Bank as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu convened a security meeting on settler violence.
—Zeena Saifi, CNN Money, 20 Nov. 2025
Muayyad Shaaban, who heads an office in the Palestinian Authority that is tracking the violence, said the settlers set fire to four dairy trucks, farmland, tin shacks and tents belonging to a Bedouin community.
—NPR, 13 Nov. 2025
Masked Israeli settlers attacked Palestinians and set fire to property in a pair of villages in the occupied West Bank on Tuesday before clashing with Israeli soldiers sent to break up their rampage, the Israeli military and Palestinian officials said.
—Henry Austin, NBC news, 12 Nov. 2025
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Arkansas Online, 22 Nov. 2025
Jerusalem — Israeli settlers set fire to cars in the latest arson in the occupied West Bank as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu convened a security meeting on settler violence.
—Zeena Saifi, CNN Money, 20 Nov. 2025
Muayyad Shaaban, who heads an office in the Palestinian Authority that is tracking the violence, said the settlers set fire to four dairy trucks, farmland, tin shacks and tents belonging to a Bedouin community.
—NPR, 13 Nov. 2025
Masked Israeli settlers attacked Palestinians and set fire to property in a pair of villages in the occupied West Bank on Tuesday before clashing with Israeli soldiers sent to break up their rampage, the Israeli military and Palestinian officials said.
—Henry Austin, NBC news, 12 Nov. 2025
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“Set fire to.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/set%20fire%20to. Accessed 29 Nov. 2025.
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