With police surrounding the buildings one by one, protesters run toward the Klein family home, the last building on the block.
Members of the family and their friends are gathered in the living room while dozens of protesters fill the upper floors and scale the roof.
“We are here to slow down the inevitable,” one protester tells The Times of Israel. He asked not to be named because his IDF draft date is less than two weeks away.
A protester sits on the roof of a house slated for demolition in the West Bank settlement of Ofra on February 28, 2017 (Raoul Wootliff/ Times of Israel)
“We need to show the government and the High Court that we will not let this happen easily,” he says.
Asked if he would resort to violence against police, he says he was personally opposed but knew of others who were planning to.
“People are angry and upset and I can understand them,” he adds.
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