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                                                                                         WORLD NEWS Thursday 2 February 2017



















                Israel evacuates West Bank outpost amid new settlement binge


            NEBI QENA                                                                                                           ist  coalition  government  is
            TIA GOLDENBERG                                                                                                      dominated by settlers and
            Associated Press                                                                                                    their allies.
            AMONA,  West  Bank  (AP)                                                                                            In contrast to his predeces-
            —  Israeli  forces  uprooted                                                                                        sors,  Trump  has  voiced  no
            this  West  Bank  outpost  on                                                                                       objections to Israel’s latest
            Wednesday, removing resi-                                                                                           settlement  binge.  Amona
            dents and hundreds of their                                                                                         residents and their support-
            supporters  in  sometimes                                                                                           ers had hoped Trump and
            violent clashes as they dis-                                                                                        his  softer  approach  might
            mantled a community that                                                                                            open  a  door  for  the  out-
            has  become  a  symbol  of                                                                                          post  to  remain  on  the  hill-
            Jewish settler defiance.                                                                                            top, to no avail.
            The evacuation, which fol-                                                                                          Police  spokesman  Micky
            lowed  years  of  legal  bat-                                                                                       Rosenfeld said some 3,000
            tles,  came  amid  a  flurry                                                                                        officers  were  deployed  to
            of  bold  new  settlement                                                                                           carry out the evacuation.
            moves  by  Israel’s  govern-                                                                                        They  were  met  by  1,500
            ment,  which  has  been                                                                                             protesters  who  erected
            buoyed by the election of                                                                                           makeshift  barricades  from
            President Donald Trump.                                                                                             smashed  tiles,  rusty  metal
            Thousands  of  police  of-                                                                                          bars  and  large  rocks  to
            ficers  carried  out  the  re-                                                                                      slow  the  police  advance.
            moval, squaring off against                                                                                         Police  said  some  20  offi-
            hundreds    of   protesters,                                                                                        cers were slightly injured by
            many  of  them  young  reli-                                                                                        stones  or  an  unidentified
            gious activists who flocked   Israeli police arrest a settler in Amona outpost in the West Bank, Wednesday, Feb. 1, 2017. Israeli   liquid  hurled  at  them  and
                                         forces have begun evacuating a controversial settlement Amona, which is the largest of about
            to  the  wind-swept  hilltop   100 unauthorized outposts erected in the West Bank without permission but generally tolerated by   a  dozen  protesters  were
            to show their solidarity with   the Israeli government.                                                             arrested. Hundreds of pro-
            residents.                                                                                   (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)  testers were removed from
            Planting  themselves  inside                                                                                        the hill and more than half
            trailer homes and the com-   with tacit support from the  that the entire outpost was  fore the outpost’s removal,   of  the  outpost’s  roughly
            munity’s  synagogue,  the    Israeli  government.  It  was  built  on  private  Palestinian  signaling  a  ramping  up  of   40  families  had  left  their
            protesters  defied  police,   the scene of violent clashes  land  and  must  be  demol-  settlement construction un-  homes by nightfall.
            who  carried  some  away.    between settlers and secu-   ished, setting Feb. 8 as the  der  President  Trump,  who   Protesters,  who  began  ar-
            Protesters  chained  them-   rity  forces  during  a  partial  final deadline after repeat-  has  indicated  he  will  be   riving  in  the  weeks  ahead
            selves  to  heavy  objects  or   demolition exactly 11 years  ed delays.               more  accepting  of  Israeli   of   the   slated   demoli-
            linked  arms  to  form  a  wall   ago, on Feb. 1, 2006.   In an apparent attempt to  settlement  policies.  The     tion,  heckled  officers  and
            against  police,  chanting   Those homes were found to  temper  settler  anger  over  settler  movement  is  a  po-  pleaded  with  them  to  re-
            “Jews  don’t  expel  Jews!”   be built on private Palestin-  the  evacuation,  Israel  ap-  tent political force in Israel,   fuse their orders. The evac-
            Dozens  of  residents  reluc-  ian  land.  Israel’s  Supreme  proved  thousands  of  new  and  Prime  Minister  Benja-  uation  was  expected  to
            tantly left their homes with-  Court  later  ruled  in  2014  settler  homes  a  day  be-  min  Netanyahu’s  national-  drag into the night.q
            out  resistance,  young  chil-
            dren in tow.
            “This is my home. I want to      Iranian general acknowledges missile test
            stay  here.  It  is  my  right  to
            stay  here,”  resident  Tam-  AMIR VAHDAT                 Tasnim  news  agency  as  include  provisions  against  tained  and  expanded  its
            ar  Nizri  told  Channel  2  TV
            news. “This is expulsion, de-  Associated Press           saying  “the  recent  missile  missile tests.             own  sanctions  related  to
                                         TEHRAN,  Iran  (AP)  —  Iran’s  test is in line with our plans  When it came into effect in  Iran’s missile program.
            struction, an injustice and a
            crime. The most basic truth   defense    minister   said  and we will not let any for-  2016,  the  Security  Council  At  the  request  of  the  Unit-
                                                                                                   lifted  most  U.N.  sanctions  ed States, the U.N. Security
                                         Wednesday  that  his  coun-
                                                                      eigner meddle with our de-
            is  that  the  Land  of  Israel
            belongs  to  the  people  of   try  recently  carried  out  fense issues.              against Tehran, including a  Council held an session on
                                         a  missile  test,  days  after  ” He did not say when the  2010 ban on testing missiles  Tuesday to address allega-
            Israel,”  including  the  West
            Bank, she said.              the  White  House  said  it  test  was  carried  out  or  capable of carrying nucle-   tions that Iran conducted a
                                         was  looking  into  reports  of  specify  the  type  of  missile,  ar warheads.
                                                                                                                                ballistic missile test.
            With  some  250  residents,
            Amona  is  the  largest  of   an  Iranian  ballistic  missile  but said the test was not in  The  council  nevertheless  The  council  referred  the
                                         launch that may have con-
                                                                      violation of U.N. resolutions  adopted  a  resolution  in  matter  to  its  committee
            about  100  unauthorized
            outposts  erected  in  the   travened a U.N. resolution.  or the 2015 nuclear accord.  2015  which  “calls  on”  Iran  on  Iran  and  asked  for  an
                                         Gen. Hossein Dehghan was  The  nuclear  deal  reached  not to carry out such tests.
            West  Bank  without  formal                                                                                         investigation.q
            permission  but  generally   quoted by the semi-official  with world powers does not  The United States has main-
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