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West Bank outpost residents handed eviction notices

After three-month delay, evacuation of illegal posts begins. Settlers of Yitzhar South on Monday handed notices instructing them to leave place, evacuate their belongings immediately

After being postponed three months ago, due to the war in Lebanon, the evacuation of illegal West Bank outposts was underway again Monday. As a first step in the process, the resident of the Yitzhar South outpost in Samaria were handed eviction notices Monday noon.

 

The notices, which fail to specify an eviction date, were distributed to the settlers by policemen of the Judea and Samaria District and Civil Authority personnel, in accordance with the instructions of Defense Minister Amir Peretz.

 

The notices instruct the residents to vacate the compound with their belongings immediately.

 

Six families and several bachelors live in the outpost, which includes five permanent structures, a water tower, a structure used as a synagogue, a playground and an area designated for cultivation.

 

Extreme Right activist Baruch Marzel said in response to the distribution of eviction notices that, "A government that fails against Arabs intends to fight good Jews. If this wasn't our country, we would laugh."

 

Dror Etkes from the Left organization Peace Now, on the other hand, said: "Defense Minister Amir Peretz will be judged not according to the number of notices he issues, but the number of outposts he demolishes."

 

The debate surrounding the illegal outposts became the focus of attention again after the war in the north has ended and ahead of the addition of Israel Our Home Chairman Avigdor Lieberman to the government.

 

A short while prior to Lieberman's entry into the coalition, Peretz stated that he will insist all illegal outposts are evacuated, and that he plans to launch the process in the coming weeks.

 


פרסום ראשון: 11.06.06, 19:20
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