Israeli police dismantle Palestinian camp

Israeli police dismantle Palestinian camp at E1 area of West Bank

Israeli police have dismantled a tent camp that was set up by Palestinians in the occupied West Bank in protest against the Tel Aviv regime’s plans to construct a large settlement there.

Micky Rosenfeld, an Israeli police spokesman, said on Thursday, “The 24 tents in the encampment were dismantled during the night by police.” 

Abir Kopty, a Palestinian activist who helped pitch the camp, also confirmed that the tent “village” had been taken down. 

On Wednesday, an Israeli court issued a ruling that permitted Tel Aviv regime forces to remove the tents set up at E1 area near al-Quds (Jerusalem).

The Palestinians had received the court’s temporary injunction allowing them to keep the encampment. However, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called for the decision to be reversed. 

On January 11, Palestinian activists set up the camp, which they named Bab al-Shams (Gate of the Sun) in a move to protest against Israeli plans to build more illegal settler units in E1 area.

Israeli forces, however, attacked the tents and forced the activists out of the location two days later. 

On January 15, Palestinian protesters tried to return to the site, but Israeli forces blocked them, declaring the area a closed military zone. 

The E1 project aims at connecting the West Bank settlement of Maale Adumim to East al-Quds (Jerusalem), about six kilometers away. The plan will cut off the northern part of the West Bank from the south.
More than half a million Israelis live in over 120 illegal settlements built since the 1967 Israeli occupation of the West Bank and East al-Quds. 

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