Police and officials from Israel’s Civil Administration in Judea and Samaria have been attempting to evict Jewish residents from apartments located in a former Arab market that was built on Jewish property.
Though the Supreme Court has ruled that the property is in fact owned by Jews, the court ordered the government to evict the Jewish residents because they entered the property without government authorization.
The threat of eviction has provoked disturbances among Hevron’s Jewish residents, many of whom are still traumatized by the forced expulsion of 10,000 Jewish residents from their homes in Gaza and northern Samaria last August.
Meir Indor, Yesha (Judea and Samaria) activist and head of Almagor, an organization that assists victims of Arab terror, said that he was shocked by the police’s willingness to use all means to expel Jews from their homes.
Indor said the police’s willingness to evict Jews stands in sharp contrast to the recent statement by IDF Chief-of-Staff, Dan Halutz, that Israel cannot use all the means at its disposal to prevent the firing of Kassam rockets on Jewish communities bordering the Gaza district.
Halutz said last week that stopping the Kassam’s would pose a moral dilemma for Israel, because the IDF’s response would negatively impact Gaza’s civilian population.
Indor used harsh words to describe the disparity between the way Israeli authorities relate to Jewish and Arab civilians in Judea, Samaria, and Gaza. Indor said that the police have become “the enemy of the Hebrew communities in Judea and Samaria, in the service of (U.S. Secretary of State) Condoleezza Rice and the radical left.”
Indor noted that police also threatened to harm Jewish civilians who were protesting the disengagement at the mass demonstration held at Kfar Maimon last summer.
Though the Supreme Court has ruled that the property is in fact owned by Jews, the court ordered the government to evict the Jewish residents because they entered the property without government authorization.
The threat of eviction has provoked disturbances among Hevron’s Jewish residents, many of whom are still traumatized by the forced expulsion of 10,000 Jewish residents from their homes in Gaza and northern Samaria last August.
Meir Indor, Yesha (Judea and Samaria) activist and head of Almagor, an organization that assists victims of Arab terror, said that he was shocked by the police’s willingness to use all means to expel Jews from their homes.
Indor said the police’s willingness to evict Jews stands in sharp contrast to the recent statement by IDF Chief-of-Staff, Dan Halutz, that Israel cannot use all the means at its disposal to prevent the firing of Kassam rockets on Jewish communities bordering the Gaza district.
Halutz said last week that stopping the Kassam’s would pose a moral dilemma for Israel, because the IDF’s response would negatively impact Gaza’s civilian population.
Indor used harsh words to describe the disparity between the way Israeli authorities relate to Jewish and Arab civilians in Judea, Samaria, and Gaza. Indor said that the police have become “the enemy of the Hebrew communities in Judea and Samaria, in the service of (U.S. Secretary of State) Condoleezza Rice and the radical left.”
Indor noted that police also threatened to harm Jewish civilians who were protesting the disengagement at the mass demonstration held at Kfar Maimon last summer.