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Police, IDF complete evacuation of illegal outpost of Yad Yair
By Nadav Shragai and Yuval Azoulay, Haaretz Correspondents, and Associated Press
Tags: Israel, Settlers, Yad Yair 

West Bank settlers torched fields belonging to Palestinian villagers and punctured the tires of IDF vehicles on Thursday, in response to the forced evacuation of the illegal outpost of Yad Yair by Police and Israel Defense Forces soldiers.

Police said two Israelis were arrested. Witnesses from the village of Madameh said about 200 trees were set on fire. The village is in the northern West Bank near the Israeli settlement of Yitzhar.

Israel Radio has reported that the army is currently trying to block the entry of settlers to the nearby West Bank city of Ramallah.
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On Wednesday, the Israel Defense Forces backed off of a planned evacuation of the illegal West Bank outpost, west of the settlement of Binyamin after a throng of settlers who learned of the plan gathered at the site before dawn on Wednesday.

Senior IDF officials have held contacts with settler leaders in an effort to coordinate an agreed upon relocation of the outpost closer to the settlement of Dolev.

Hundreds of settlers from nearby settlements, including Dolev, Talmon, Nahliel, Niryah, and Harsha, gathered late Tuesday night at the outpost after residents received information that the army and the police were about to launch an evacuation. Settlers say the security forces had deployed a significant number of personnel as well as equipment used for evacuation.

A settler leader from Dolev, Yanir Aldubi, who also serves as the head of the Binyamin settlements secretariat, told Haaretz shortly after arriving on the scene that he did not understand why large forces were concentrated in preparation for evacuation of Yad Yair (which was named after Yair Mendelson, a settler from Dolev who was killed by Palestinians during the first intifada) given that the settlers and the security forces reached an agreement on its relocation.

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      1.   Relocation 12:20  |  al 18/09/08
      2.   Police and Soldiers in large numbers 12:34  |  Dr. David Feigenbaum 18/09/08
      3.   This is outrageous 13:54  |  lady from USA 18/09/08
      4.   I am a Religious Zionist!!! 14:46  |  Jay A Friedman 18/09/08
      5.   Obviously, Yad Yair Will Be Rebuilt 15:03  |  Yishai Kohen 18/09/08
      6.   the settlers 15:12  |  T A Sheppard 18/09/08
      7.   To "religious Zionist" 15:13  |  just me 18/09/08
      8.   the war against jews is on: by enemy without and enemy within 15:23  |  Alon Chiloni 18/09/08
      9.   how many were arrested? 15:41  |  AMIHAI 18/09/08
      10.   Dr. David Feigenbaum 15:51  |  al 18/09/08
      11.   You have it wrong, Alon #7... 16:31  |  Esther 18/09/08
      12.   Dr. #2... you`re making-up-stories... 16:36  |  Esther 18/09/08
      13.   Yishai #4... and what about the faux-"Zionists"... 16:41  |  Esther 18/09/08
      14.   Esther: There Is NO "Palestinian" Territory 16:48  |  Yishai Kohen 18/09/08
      15.   jews and Arabs 17:15  |  elimelech 18/09/08
      16.   #15 elimelech 17:45  |  Boycott 18/09/08
      17.   elimilech 17:51  |  Dave Duncan 18/09/08
      18.   #14 Yishai Kohen 17:53  |  Boycott 18/09/08
      19.   You give yourself away, Mr. Kohen 17:56  |  Murray 18/09/08
      20.   Yishai, you are living in the fantasy of... 18:19  |  Esther 18/09/08
      21.   #18 Boycott: No Problem- Here`s The Deal 18:19  |  Yishai Kohen 18/09/08
      22.   Boycott again 18:38  |  lady from USA 18/09/08
      23.   Murray 18:40  |  lady from USA 18/09/08
      24.   Esther 18:45  |  lady from USA 18/09/08
      25.   Legality 19:01  |  lady from USA 18/09/08
      26.   #4 I too am ashamed 19:07  |  H 18/09/08
      27.   Lady from-wherever #23 19:09  |  Esther 18/09/08
      28.   Boycott again 19:12  |  al 18/09/08
      29.   Burning of Trees 19:24  |  Yaakov Sullivan 18/09/08
      30.   al 19:37  |  lady from USA 18/09/08
      31.   #21 lady form USA showing her racist colours 19:55  |  Mark B. 18/09/08
      32.   evacuate Dolev, Talmon, Nahliel, Niryah, and Harsha 19:57  |  Pablo B 18/09/08
      33.   #14 Yishai Kohen - great, then make all Pals Israeli citizens 20:06  |  Pablo B 18/09/08
      34.   Pablo on Evacuations #32 20:13  |  Yaakov Sullivan 18/09/08
      35.   Pablo B. Again 20:28  |  lady from USA 18/09/08
      36.   Yishai you give us all a bad name 20:36  |  Margie in Tel Aviv 18/09/08
      37.   Police lawlessness 20:40  |  JoJo 18/09/08
      38.   Margie in Tel Aviv 36 21:13  |  lady from USA 18/09/08
      39.   lady from USA 21:39  |  al 18/09/08
      40.   What is Yad Yair.... 22:19  |  peter 18/09/08
      41.   Yad Yair aka Yad Ganof 22:56  |  Al 18/09/08
      42.   Yad Yair is land bought by Jews 23:23  |  Jew 18/09/08
      43.   Why let the Arabs steal it? 23:56  |  al 18/09/08
      44.   # 36 margie for yishai 02:57  |  Axel 19/09/08
      45.   # 31 Mark B. 03:04  |  Axel 19/09/08
      46.   Axel has an axe to grind 06:42  |  Margie in Tel Aviv 19/09/08
      47.   #14Yishai. Fair is fair.Thanks to BALFOUR today 12:38  |  AVI 19/09/08
      48.   42.Jew. THE WEST BANK is NOT for S A L E . 12:43  |  Hamzah 19/09/08
      49.   al 20:10  |  lady from USA 20/09/08
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