Israeli forces demolish structures at illegal West Bank Israeli outpost

Jeremy Sharon is The Times of Israel’s legal affairs and settlements reporter

Illustrative: Members of the Israeli security forces remove a caravan that settlers had brought to the former outpost of Amona on January 3, 2019. (Menahem Kahana/AFP)
Illustrative: Members of the Israeli security forces remove a caravan that settlers had brought to the former outpost of Amona on January 3, 2019. (Menahem Kahana/AFP)

Police and personnel from the Civil Administration department of the Defense Ministry demolish several structures at a small, illegal West Bank Israeli outpost on the site of the former Amona settlement which was evacuated in 2017.

According to settler activists, one of the homes demolished belonged to one of the former residents of Amona who established the new outpost a year ago.

And they claim that another of the homes was the residence of an IDF soldier currently fighting in Gaza, although they did not give his name.

The activists said the police confiscated the phones of the outpost’s residents and prevented them from videoing the evacuation.

The Civil Administration notes that the outpost was located very close to Area B of the West Bank where the Palestinian Authority exercises civilian control.

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