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2 February 2017

Israel evacuates West Bank outpost amid new settlement binge

This Wednesday, May 18, 2016 file photo shows buildings in Amona, an unauthorized Israeli outpost in the West Bank, east of the Palestinian town of Ramallah. Israeli forces and West Bank settlers are bracing for the looming evacuation of a settlement outpost slated for demolition. Amona is the largest of about 100 unauthorized outposts erected in the West Bank without permission but generally tolerated by the Israeli government. The outpost, built in the 1990s, stretches out over a rugged, grassy hilltop and looks out across the valley onto Palestinian villages.

Israeli forces uprooted this West Bank outpost on Wednesday, removing residents and hundreds of their supporters in sometimes violent clashes as they dismantled a community that has become a symbol of Jewish settler defiance.

The evacuation, which followed years of legal battles, came amid a flurry of bold new settlement moves by Israel's government, which has been buoyed by the election of President Donald Trump.