The Shomronbranch of the Society delivered its protest in writing to IDF Central Commander Yair Naveh. In addition to protesting the fact that huge piles of rubble were left in Amona, the group included pictures of piles of garbage and waste left haphazardly by soldiers in places where checkpoints had been set up to prevent activists from reaching Amona.
"I am writing to inform you that I intend to press charges against you personally for criminal infractions violating sanitary laws due to the large concentrations of garbage left at junctions and on the sides of the road where roadblocks were set up during the house-destruction in Amona," the society's chairman Yitzchak Meir wrote in his letter to Naveh. "I similarly intend to file charges regarding the piles of building materials left by your men in Amona."
Copies of the letter were sent to the Environment Ministry, to the Civil Administration and to the Binyamin Regional Municipal Council.
The Society For the Protection of Nature is a municipal body charged with enacting environmental regulations in the region. According to the law, the rubble of a demolished building is the responsibility of whoever demolished it – the IDF in the case of Amona.
The closest appropriate dump is located in Bareket, near Ben Gurion Airport. Another option for the rubble is to bring in heavy equipment to crush the remaining rubble for use in future foundations. If one of the options is not carried out by Central Commander Naveh, the Society for the Protection of Nature warns that he will be prosecuted for abandoning building refuse.