![]() ![]() ![]() It was a great pleasure to freeze there again tonight, but this time with a warm and happy heart,” he tweeted. “The last time that I stood freezing in Amona was the terrible night of the expulsion and destruction of the thriving, flourishing community that was there. Today we have done it,” Gantz declared.Īlso on site for the caravan installation was Jewish Home MK Bezalel Smotrich, who called on Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to allow the mobile homes to remain. “Yesterday I promised that we would establish a new settlement in Binyamin (central West Bank) in response to the recent serious attacks. View of caravan houses in the illegal West Bank outpost of Amona on January 16, 2017. Its chairman Yisrael Gantz said in a statement said that “after two years in which the location had been deserted, we are privileged to return Israeli life here,” asserting that the plots had been legally purchased. The late Thursday night installation of the caravans was facilitated by the Binyamin Regional Council where the Amona outpost was located. The case is still ongoing with the next hearing scheduled for Wednesday, but a gag has been placed on the identities of the two suspects. Among the purchases alleged to have been falsified were for plots on which illegal homes were built in Amona, Migron, Beit El and Givat Assaf. In 2016, a pair of Israelis were indicted for falsifying documents that purported to show the purchase by settlers of land throughout the West Bank from Palestinian landowners. ![]() During that time, they had also claimed to have legally purchased the plots on which the outpost stood, but the state deemed the claim to have been bogus. The Amona residents battled for over a decade in the High Court to prevent the demolition of their community. (From L-R) Amona leader Avichai Boaron, Binyamin Regional Council chairman Yisrael Gantz, Jewish Home MK Bezalel Smotrich and Samaria Regional Council chairman Yossi Dagan stand in front of a new caravan that was installed on the hilltop where the illegal Amona outpost once stood on December 14, 2018. ![]()
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