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Sunday, July 7, 2024
Police officers forcibly remove settlers from illegal West Bank outpost
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GoogleJeremy Sharon is The Times of Israel’s legal affairs and settlements reporter
Border Police forces arrive at the illegal outpost of Tzur Harel to remove seven settler activists from the site, located in the Benjamin Region north of Jerusalem.
Tzur Harel was the site of severe violence by radical settler activists last week who threw rocks and Molotov cocktails at a large contingent of Border Police officers during an evacuation of the outpost and the demolition of the rudimentary buildings at the site.
Following that incident, the IDF declared the land in and around the outpost a closed military zone, prohibiting civilians from entering.
Settler activists say that today’s evacuation is the sixth since the original evacuation and demolition last week.
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