Just three weeks after the brutal destruction of the Federman-Tor farm in Kiryat Arba, security forces did the same to a mobile home near Shilo.
The caravan in question is located on a hilltop just outside the small start-up community of Adei Ad, between Shilo/Shvut Rachel and the Alon Highway in the Jordan Valley. Police and Civil Administration men arrived at the site around 11 AM on Tuesday with a bulldozer and other heavy equipment, as well as five Arab workers, and began their destruction work.
Two Others, As Well
Security forces also destroyed the foundations to a building on a hilltop near Kokhav Yaakov, just north of Jerusalem, and took equipment as well. Further north, outside N'vei Tzuf, forces destroyed other structures.
Tzuri, an eyewitness to the destruction to Adei Ad, told IsraelNationalNews, “They detached the caravan from the water and electric lines, threw some stuff out of the caravan, took some equipment and put it in their own private car, and the loaded it onto their truck. They brought a bulldozer, also driven by an Arab, and took down the other structure that was there as well. Both had been lived in by several youths.”
People familiar with the hilltop say they believe it was targeted by the Shabak (General Security Service) because it was started by David Libman and Meir Brettler – both of whom were served with orders several weeks ago distancing them from Judea and Samaria for three months.
Land of Israel Loyalists members say that the start-up Jewish presence had been attacked and damaged by “anarchists and radical leftists in the past, and now the police are coming to finish the job… We will return and continue to settle the land, however; we won’t let the anarchists defeat us.”
This is a promise that has been made – and kept – many times in the past. Nearly all of the outposts that were evacuated and/or destroyed throughout Judea and Samaria have been repeatedly rebuilt by the mostly youthful pioneers who originally started them.