Settler leader decries ‘unfathomable tragedy’ of upcoming Amona evacuation

30 January 2017, 1:56 pm

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As lawmakers in the Knesset finalize a controversial bill to legalize West bank outposts, hundreds of protesters gather outside the parliament building to decry the upcoming evacuation of Amona, the most contentious of the unrecognized settlements.

While praising the legislation that would legalize some 4,000 housing units in the West Bank built on privately owned Palestinian land, speakers at the event slammed the government for not doing more to prevent the court-ordered evacuation.

Israeli settlers protest the planned eviction of the Amona outpost, in front of the Knesset, January 30, 2017. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

“An unfathomable tragedy is going to take place. They are going to uproot a Jewish settlement from the Land of Israel,” says Yesh Council chair Yossi Dagan.

“And why?” he asks the crowd. “Because no one took any lead to stop it,” he says.