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The Philadelphia Inquirer · Philadelphia, Pennsylvania · 14 January 2013

CP-2013-001

Palestinians evacuated, Netanyahu affirms plans

The Israeli prime minister vowed to press ahead with construction in a key area of the West Bank.

Joel Greenberg, The Washington Post, Jerusalem

Palestinians evacuated, Netanyahu affirms plans — The Philadelphia Inquirer, 14 January 2013
The Philadelphia Inquirer · Philadelphia, Pennsylvania · 14 January 2013

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“Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu promised Sunday to follow through with plans for settlement construction in a key West Bank area known as E-1 after police evicted scores of Palestinian protesters who had set up a tent camp there… Netanyahu, who is in the home stretch of an election campaign, moved swiftly against the Palestinian encampment, a new form of grass-roots protest modeled after scores of wildcat outposts set up by Jewish settlers on West Bank hills without government approval. While many of those outposts remain in place, Netanyahu ordered the evacuation of the Palestinian camp — a cluster of about 20 tents that protesters called the village of ‘Bab al-Shams,’ or Gate of the Sun — a day after it went up Friday… About 500 police officers moved into the area at 2:30 a.m. and evicted about 120 Palestinians… But Abir Kopty, a spokeswoman for the protesters, said that some were punched in the face as they sat and resisted removal, and that six required hospital treatment… ‘They are allowing more than 100 outposts to stay, illegal settlements by every standard of international law, while preventing people from being on land privately owned by Palestinians,’ he said.”

Photograph caption

Israeli police evict a Palestinian from an area known near Jerusalem known as E-1. Activists had erected tents in the area in an effort to prevent Israeli settlement construction. Nasser Shiyoukhi / Associated Press.

Context added by this archive

Palestinians build an outpost using the settlers’ own method, and it is cleared in a day. Mustafa Barghouti is quoted naming the double standard.

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