Friday, June 29, 2012

Israel clears West Bank settlement outpost Ulpana

Source  RT

Israel has finished evacuating some 30 settler families from an illegal West Bank outpost. Police and the military said they encountered little resistance on Friday as the evacuation was carried out in two phases. The second set of families left Ulpana peacefully on Thursday night, AP reports. However, 15 settlers from outside the outpost barricaded themselves inside one apartment to protest the eviction. Israel's Supreme Court earlier ordered that the outpost, built on privately owned Palestinian land, be dismantled by July 1.