The Israeli government had fought the ruling and made efforts to legalize the complex, under construction in Beit El without Israeli authorization.
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Jewish settlers at the West Bank settlements of Beit El and Sa-Nur stood their ground on Tuesday, occupying buildings slated for demolition at the former and in the destroyed structures of the latter, demanding the Israeli government allows them to keep a presence at both sites.
Israeli prime minister Binyamin Netanyahu has gone out of his way to calm the right- wing flank of his slim coalition after showdowns between police and radical settlers at two West Bank flashpoints.
The entire episode enraged right-wing members of Netanyahu’s coalition, who wondered why the police had been given a green light for the evacuation when both the prime minister and his defense minister, Moshe Yaalon, claimed to be against the demolition of the Dreinoff neighborhood. The sane and law abiding majority there knows this.
Settlers and security forces held a tense standoff late Tuesday night in Beit El, as they waited for the High Court ruling which effectively sealed the fate of the disputed apartment buildings known as “the House of Draynof”. I will not cooperate with anarchy.
Jewish settlers clashed with Israeli police on Tuesday as authorities took control of homes being built in the occupied West Bank, after a court ruled that the illegal structures must be demolished.
“This act contradicts the foundations and principles of the government, as well as the responsible and nationalist conduct I expect of this government”.
In anti-police chants, protesters said the police were “destroying homes in the land of Israel” and that “Jew don’t expel Jews”, the Times of Israel reported.
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Under that in fact organize, then-premier Ariel Sharon unilaterally gathered all Israeli tenants and infantrymen from the originial and Gaza Strip, but he also uprooted four pay outs within the strategic West Bank – one instance was also Sanur.
