Security forces remove buildings from West Bank settlement outpost

Security forces overnight removed five buildings that had been set up in the Oz Zion settlement outpost in the West Bank.

Video from the scene showed Border Police scuffling with residents and taking some of them away.

The evacuation is the first since Defense Minister Israel Katz took up his new post this week.

Oz Zion has been demolished by the government and rebuilt by settlers numerous times in recent years.

A security source tells the Ynet news site that the five structures were erected on privately owned Palestinian land and had been a base for “criminal activity.”

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