Havat Shaked, the Shaked Farm, located less than 100 feet from Yitzhar, has been destroyed five times by the IDF - and was rebuilt each time by the residents of Yitzhar. It is populated by two horses, three goats and four chickens.
Just after dawn Wednesday morning, about 100 police from the “Yassam” unit arrived at the petting zoo. They knocked down the boards that make up the cages for the children's animals, and left.
Aviad Visuly, of the Land of Israel Task Force, who assists residents of Yesha (Judea, Samaria and Gaza) with legal cases regarding settlement issues, told Arutz-7 that the destruction of the petting zoo was merely a symbolic act by the security forces to be able to report to the Prime Minister that an outpost had been destroyed.
Yisrael Libman, a resident of Yitzhar, said that the residents did not arrive en-masse, as they have in other cases of feared evacuations, "because it was merely a provocation by the security forces. They were hoping to have scenes of violence and the like, but we didn't cooperate. We simply didn't show up."
Visuly similarly said, “The Yitzhar leadership saw no need to send people to be beaten by the riot police sent by the government for the sake of a petting zoo that will be rebuilt already today."
Just after dawn Wednesday morning, about 100 police from the “Yassam” unit arrived at the petting zoo. They knocked down the boards that make up the cages for the children's animals, and left.
Aviad Visuly, of the Land of Israel Task Force, who assists residents of Yesha (Judea, Samaria and Gaza) with legal cases regarding settlement issues, told Arutz-7 that the destruction of the petting zoo was merely a symbolic act by the security forces to be able to report to the Prime Minister that an outpost had been destroyed.
Yisrael Libman, a resident of Yitzhar, said that the residents did not arrive en-masse, as they have in other cases of feared evacuations, "because it was merely a provocation by the security forces. They were hoping to have scenes of violence and the like, but we didn't cooperate. We simply didn't show up."
Visuly similarly said, “The Yitzhar leadership saw no need to send people to be beaten by the riot police sent by the government for the sake of a petting zoo that will be rebuilt already today."