West Bank settlers prepare for eviction by troops
(1 Feb 2006) AP Television ++NIGHT SHOTS++ 1.Wide shot of settlers at outpost 2. Settlers passing near barricades 3. Settlers climbing up ladder onto rooftop 4. Barricades 5. Fire on rooftops 6. Settlers dancing POOL 6. Settlers praying 7. Group of settlers in sleeping bags 8. Israeli policemen arriving 9. Bulldozer clearing road 10. Policemen and settler praying 11. Settler girl shouting at Israeli soldier 12. Girls weeping 13. Bulldozer clearing the road 14. Injured policemen 15. SOUNDBITE: (English) Effi Eitam, Right-wing Israeli Knesset member: "We have here thousands of people who came here to keep their legal right to demonstrate against evil provocations and brutality. This is the elementary right of every citizen, every civilian, in a democratic country and that is what we shall do." 16. Wide shot of houses 17. Various of settlers on rooftops STORYLINE: The Israeli Supreme Court postponed evictions from part of a West Bank settler outpost before dawn on Wednesday, after residents there agreed to move nine homes to a nearby settlement, settlers and Israeli media reported. About 6,000 Israeli security forces had mobilised to forcibly remove hundreds of opponents to the demolition of the structures at the Amona outpost, which was supposed to begin on Wednesday. The army said it had expected the resistance to the demolition to be violent. Effi Eitam, an Israeli Knesset member, said "We have here thousands of people who came here to keep their legal right to demonstrate against evil provocations and brutality. This is the elementary right of every citizen in a democratic country and that is what we shall do." The homes, like dozens of other settler outposts, were built by Jewish settlers without Israeli authorisation on disputed West Bank land in an attempt to prevent it from being transferred to the Palestinians in any future Israeli withdrawal from the territory. In reaction to the compromise, the Supreme Court ordered a halt to the evacuation of the buildings, Israeli radio and settlers said. The court is now reported to be going to hold a hearing on the matter later on Wednesday, the radio and settlers said. Israel is committed in the internationally-backed "road map" peace plan to dismantle about two dozen settler outposts. The nine buildings that will be moved are built on Palestinian-owned land. Several more temporary buildings exist but on what Israel says is state-owned land. The Palestinians hope to set up a state in areas Israel captured in 1967, which includes the West Bank, Gaza Strip and east Jerusalem. Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork Twitter: / ap_archive Facebook: / aparchives Instagram: / apnews You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/you...
