Israeli police evict Palestinian activist from settlement protest

by admin
Jan 12, 2013

Israeli police evicted Palestinian activists protesting against a planned Jewish settlement in the West Bank.

Hundreds of police together with bulldozers surrounded the protest camp, named Bab al-Shams after a Palestinian village that had existed near it previously, and evicted around 200 activists.

In a statement, protest organisers from the Popular Struggle Coordination Committee, said:

“This is not the end of the popular struggle and it will continue in its full strength.”

Bab al-Shams is located in the E1 area between Jerusalem and the Ma'ale Adumim settlement, and was the site earmarked for the new Jewish settlement vowed by Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu in response to Palestine becoming a non-member UN State in the General Assembly.

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