To further make "peace offerings" to the PA, it seems it was deicded that last night around midnight would be a good time to destroy a Jewish-built structure at a small farm belonging to the Federman/Tor families:
Activists have sent out a message which reads, in part:
...a corrupt criminal government who in the morning on Shabbat brought 550 PLO terrorists in Hevron and in the evening rewarded those terrorists by destroying the houses of two Jewish families.
The Kiryat Arba people call upon all to come today at noon to rebuild the destroyed houses.
And Nadia Matar adds:
In addition, during the day I will forward pix of policemen who participated in the crime. We will spread their pictures. Anyone who recognizes them please get back to me with the info.
The company that brought the destruction forces to Kiryat Arba is the "Movilei Havradim" bus company from Pekiin (!). their phone number 04-9972153
YNet carries this story:
Massive police, Border Guard and IDF forces demolished an illegal outpost in the West Bank city of Hebron on Saturday night. Three people were arrested during the evacuation.
Shortly after 1:30 am, the forces arrived near the home of extreme right-wing activist Noam Federman. He was arrested for assaulting a policeman and breaking his hand, and two young girls were taken into custody after reportedly attempting to set fire to a police car. Another person was detained for questioning.
Federman's wife, Elisheva, recounted the events in a conversation with Ynet."It was a regular Saturday evening. We were cleaning after Shabbat. Our nine children went to sleep. I finished working on a paper for school, Noam was on the computer, when we suddenly heard dogs barking. We received a phone call that massive forces were headed towards us. Noam went out to see what was happening, and then Yasamniks ((Israel Police special patrol unit) jumped on him. I haven't seen him since.
"I saw herds of black uniform. I locked the door, but they broke into the house, smashed the windows, and all this without any warning. The children woke up and came to my room.
"They pulled out the entire contents of the house. Everything that was in the cupboards – books, clothes, money. They forcibly removed us from the house and took us to the Gush Etzion Junction. They said we were all under arrest. Me and six other children – aged one, three, nine, 14, 16 and 17.
"They destroyed the entire house and cut off its gas supply. Several hours later, they told us we were not under arrest and let me go back to the house to take the car. I saw the complete destruction in the place and they told me, 'Take what you want.'
"Eighteen years of marriage are folded under the wreckage. I didn’t even have Materna to take for the baby. The oldest daughter was taken to the police station and was arrested after her hand was broken."
The Federman family has been living in the place for two and a half years. According to the residents, the far had been manned for 11 years. Elisheva Federman said there was no legal motive for the evacuation.
"We have had right of possession on this land for 10 years. No Arab has demanded it. We launched legal proceedings and paid a lot of money. How can they do this without any warning? I hope God gives us the strength to return. We have no property now. We can build a tent there. We have nothing to lose," she said.
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UPDATE
From Haaretz:
Settlers on Sunday desecrated a Muslim graveyard following the evacuation of an illegal outpost near the West Bank settlement of Kiryat Arba...Rightists came to the site and threw stones at the security forces in response to the evacuation. A of them number were arrested for attacking a police officer, and two young women were arrested after they tried to set a police car alight.
In addition to vandalizing the graves, settlers also smashed the windows of nearby Palestinian homes and punctured the tires of Palestinian vehicles.
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