Several hundreds of Israeli settlers blocked a row of red rooftop houses slated for eviction on Tuesday (February 28) as Israeli security personnel deployed around the neighborhood in the West Bank settlement of Ofra.
Reports the eviction from Ofra's nine houses was near came just weeks after Israel evicted several hundreds of Israeli settlers from nearby Amona, the largest of scores of outposts built in the West Bank. The Supreme Court ruled in November, after a lengthy legal battle, that settlers had to leave because their homes were built on privately owned Palestinian land.
Scores of nationalist Israeli youths who flocked to Amona in support of the settlers scuffled with police, and thirteen were detained.
But in Ofra, residents who voiced criticism over the court's decision, said there will be no violence.
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