TEL AVIV, May 27 (RIA Novosti) - Israeli security
forces dismantled early on Wednesday two illegal Jewish
outposts in the occupied West Bank, a local police spokesman
said.
Under the roadmap for a solution to the
Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Israel is obliged to freeze all
settlement construction activity and remove unauthorized
outposts built since 2001.
The evacuation took place in the Jewish settlement of
Kiryat Arba, near the West Bank city of Hebron. No violence was
reported during the demolition. All the settlers have been
evacuated.
The latest evacuation occurred a week after Israel
demolished another settler outpost, Maoz Esther.
The demolition came in line with a pledge made last Monday
after the first talks between Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin
Netanyahu and U.S. President Barack Obama in Washington.
After the negotiations, Defense Minister Ehud Barak said:
"We will dismantle the illegal outposts... If it won't be
through understanding, it will be done quickly and by force."
Israel has 121 settlements in the occupied West Bank with
a combined population of around 300,000. Israel's defense
minister pledged to destroy at least 22 of the settlements.
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