Police, protesters settle in for standoff over Amona

Police have brought in a skunk truck and bulldozer, which are sitting on the road below Amona, and several dozen officers are spaced out along the road leading to the outpost. The closest are standing at a distance from the entrance.

Several teens are setting up blockades and scattering boulders on the road, but most people are indoors, at homes and in the synagogue, doing their best to keep out of the cold.

Israeli protesters place boulders on the road leading into the illegal West Bank outpost of Amona ahead of its demolition, on February 1, 2017. (Judah Ari Gross/Times of Israel staff)

An unverified claim by protest organizers says there are around 1,700 people in the outpost, the vast majority of whom are young religious teens, but that could not be independently verified.

— Judah Ari Gross