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| By: Israel Insider staff and partners |
| Published: January 29, 2006 |
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About 7,000 Israeli security forces, anticipating resistance, were training Sunday to evacuate two small settler outposts in Judea and Samaria later this week, police said.
Just 33 families live in the outposts in Amona and in a Hebron marketplace, but resistance is expected to be fierce to Israel's first evacuation of Jewish settlers since it withdrew from Gaza and dismantled four settlements over the summer. Hundreds of settlers were mobilizing to try to block the evacuations and could use violence, police said Sunday.
The Israeli army on Sunday ordered 21 Jewish settlers to stay away from the two outposts, to try to prevent clashes during the evacuations, the army said.
The restraining orders were distributed in Amona and the veteran settlement of Yitzhar. Yitzhar settlers threw stones and placed spikes on settlement roads to prevent security forces from handing out the orders, police spokesman Shlomi Sagi said. Four settlers - three of them masked - were taken into custody, Sagi said.
The dismantling of Hebron was slated for Tuesday, said a police commander in Hebron, Eli Zamir. Israel's Supreme Court cleared the way for Amona to be evacuated by rejecting a petition by settlers who sought to block the outpost's demolition.
Israel's Supreme Court is slated to rule later Sunday on a petition by settlers trying to prevent Amona's demolition, an army spokesman said.
Under the U.S.-backed "road map" peace plan, Israel has pledged to remove roughly two dozen outposts built in Judea and Samaria.
The AP contributed to this report. |
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