AMERICANS FOR A SAFE ISRAEL has consistently opposed the expulsion and
destruction by the Israeli government of Jewish homes, synagogues,
schools, community centers, and all the components of a community. We
protested long and hard against the expulsion from Gush Katif in 2005.
Police Brutally Evict 5 Families from Yissa Beracha Outpost - David Lev
Police early Thursday morning evicted five families from the new
community ("outpost") of Yissa Beracha, a new neighborhood of the town
of Mitspe Yericho, located between Jerusalem and the Jordan Valley.
Police violently removed the families and beat protesters who had come
to demonstrate against the eviction. Nine protesters were injured in
the police violence.
The operation, for all practical purposes, constituted a classic
"invasion" of the neighborhood, with police sealing off the
neighborhood for three hours before the eviction, while others blocked
off access roads, preventing protesters from reaching the site, and
beating them with clubs and sticks when they tried to reach the site.
Police said that three officers were injured, after they fell off a
roof they had climbed on in order to remove a resident.
Three of the protesters sustained injuries to the head, and were taken
to Hadassah Ein-Kerem Hospital for treatment. Protesters said that one
woman was injured when she was run down by a security vehicle; another
protester who was hit on the head by police was refused medical
treatment, witnesses said, with police preventing doctors from
treating him until the evictions and demolition of the structures in
the neighborhood were finished. Protesters said that, as has been the
case in recent outpost demolitions, police used Arab contractors who
gleefully ripped down the structures, cursing and laughing at the Jews
while they did their work.
MK Michael Ben-Ari said that "the time has come for the national
religious public to understand that the government of Prime Minister
Binyamin Netanyahu is bad for the Jews. The obsessive and ongoing
demolition of Jewish homes has reached the levels of the eviction of
Jews from their homes in Gush Katif and northern Samaria. Netanyahu
and Defense Minister Ehud Barak are persecuting residents, evicting
children from their homes, and injuring protesters - and afterwards
they wonder why there are 'price tag' actions."
Along with the demolition and eviction of five families in the new
community of Yissa Beracha, a new neighborhood of the town of Mitspe
Yericho, police and border guards also evicted the Slonim family in
the Oz Tzion neighborhood of Givat Assaf. Police tore down the
building, with police waving guns and rifles at residents during the
eviction. Police deny the report
destruction by the Israeli government of Jewish homes, synagogues,
schools, community centers, and all the components of a community. We
protested long and hard against the expulsion from Gush Katif in 2005.
Police Brutally Evict 5 Families from Yissa Beracha Outpost - David Lev
Police early Thursday morning evicted five families from the new
community ("outpost") of Yissa Beracha, a new neighborhood of the town
of Mitspe Yericho, located between Jerusalem and the Jordan Valley.
Police violently removed the families and beat protesters who had come
to demonstrate against the eviction. Nine protesters were injured in
the police violence.
The operation, for all practical purposes, constituted a classic
"invasion" of the neighborhood, with police sealing off the
neighborhood for three hours before the eviction, while others blocked
off access roads, preventing protesters from reaching the site, and
beating them with clubs and sticks when they tried to reach the site.
Police said that three officers were injured, after they fell off a
roof they had climbed on in order to remove a resident.
Three of the protesters sustained injuries to the head, and were taken
to Hadassah Ein-Kerem Hospital for treatment. Protesters said that one
woman was injured when she was run down by a security vehicle; another
protester who was hit on the head by police was refused medical
treatment, witnesses said, with police preventing doctors from
treating him until the evictions and demolition of the structures in
the neighborhood were finished. Protesters said that, as has been the
case in recent outpost demolitions, police used Arab contractors who
gleefully ripped down the structures, cursing and laughing at the Jews
while they did their work.
MK Michael Ben-Ari said that "the time has come for the national
religious public to understand that the government of Prime Minister
Binyamin Netanyahu is bad for the Jews. The obsessive and ongoing
demolition of Jewish homes has reached the levels of the eviction of
Jews from their homes in Gush Katif and northern Samaria. Netanyahu
and Defense Minister Ehud Barak are persecuting residents, evicting
children from their homes, and injuring protesters - and afterwards
they wonder why there are 'price tag' actions."
Along with the demolition and eviction of five families in the new
community of Yissa Beracha, a new neighborhood of the town of Mitspe
Yericho, police and border guards also evicted the Slonim family in
the Oz Tzion neighborhood of Givat Assaf. Police tore down the
building, with police waving guns and rifles at residents during the
eviction. Police deny the report
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