Police demolish Gush Etzion outposts

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After a day of violent clashes between security forces and settlers, the illegal structures located at the unauthorized Neveh Daniel North outpost in Gush Etzion, located north of the settlement that bears the same name, were finally demolished on Wednesday.

Considered a test case for what is yet to come, security forces and settlers are gearing up for a bitter battle in the near future, as the state prepares to dismantle nine illegal homes built at the Amona outpost opposite Ofra in the Binyamin district. The state also plans to evacuate eight Jewish families from the Shalhevet outpost, where they are dwelling in Palestinian houses located in a former Hebron wholesale market place.

At the Gush Etzion outpost, police arrested eleven settlers, and four policemen were lightly wounded during the fracas that erupted. Two of the policemen required hospital treatment.

Settlers attacked security forces with bags of paint, eggs, stones and mud in an effort to prevent the structures from being demolished. In one instance, police were forced to use tear gas to disperse settlers who barricaded themselves inside the only stone dwelling at the outpost and ignored requests by security forces to leave. Settlers also punctured the tires of an IDF jeep.

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