A court ordered an illegal settlement evacuated. And the Israeli border police are doing it.
Israeli border police have clashed with Jewish settlers resisting the eviction of a hardline Jewish settlement outpost in the occupied West Bank after a court ruled the homes were built on private Palestinian land.
Police said on Wednesday they were "attacked by anarchists with materials that made their eyes burn," adding that more than a dozen officers were "lightly wounded by stones and the liquids thrown at them".
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The officers' evacuation of Amona marked the end of months of attempts by government hardliners to legalise the outpost.
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As border police were inside Amona negotiating with the settlers to leave, Khan said that the settlers were threatening to return and "build on this land legally".
"There will likely be a court challenge from the settlers," Khan said.
The Israeli Supreme Court ruled three years ago that the Amona outpost was, by its standard, illegally built on stolen Palestinian land, and ordered it to be demolished.
alJazeera
While, on the other hand...
Meanwhile, the Israeli government has announced, in just the last two weeks, a string of new projects that will add more than 6,000 illegal homes for Jewish settlers in the occupied West Bank.
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Dozens of other unauthorised outposts - distinguished from Israeli government-sanctioned settlements that are also considered illegal by the international community - have been constructed throughout the occupied West Bank by settlers.
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"We are building and we will continue building," Netanyahu said last week.
...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.
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