Border cops return to illegal outpost after settler extremists rebuild structure troops demolished yesterday

Border Police and Civil Administration forces return to the site of the illegal West Bank outpost of Or Meir to evacuate its residents and demolish makeshift structures in the wildcat settlement, after having carried out a similar operation yesterday.

Dozens of radical settler activists sought to prevent the demolition on Wednesday of Or Meir, which was built without authorization on private Palestinian land. Some 25 activists were detained during the operation for resisting evacuation and assaulting police personnel, four of whom were arrested, the Civil Administration said.

According to settler activists, a rudimentary residential home and a goat pen were rebuilt overnight at Or Meir, leading the Civil Administration and Border Police to return to the outpost on Thursday evening.

Kan News reports that 20 companies of Border Police forces have been dispatched to the site to carry out the operation once again. A spokesperson for the Border Police did not immediately confirm this detail.

Settler activists claim some 150 Border Police are currently operating at Or Meir to evacuate the activists, and have already demolished the structures that were rebuilt since yesterday.