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Police grapple with lawsuits from 2006 Amona evacuation
By Jonathan Lis
Tags: Amona.Police 

Police are hoping that a wave of civil suits alleging police brutality at the West Bank settlement outpost of Amona in February 2006 is nearing its end, after several courts ruled recently the statute of limitations on these complaints has expired.

More than three years after police clashed with settlers while demolishing nine houses in Amona, they are still seeing a "steady stream" of such suits, police sources said, and they expect future outpost evacuations to produce a similar wave of suits. These suits, say the police, are merely an attempt by settlers and right-wing activists to "settle accounts" with them for having carried out the demolitions.

Ordinarily, the statute of limitations for civil suits expires only after seven years. For suits against the security forces, however, it expires after two years, except when the plaintiffs are minors. Minors are entitled to an additional three years, but only if they can prove they were unable to file suit within the first two years.
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Two weeks ago, the Herzliya Magistrate's Court rejected a suit against the police by Yeshurun Bar-Tov. Bar-Tov, who was a minor in 2006, said his suit had been delayed by difficulties in identifying the policemen who allegedly assaulted him and his mistaken belief that he could not file suit as long as the Justice Ministry department responsible for investigating police misconduct was still looking into the case. However, Judge Zvi Dotan said he "was not convinced that the plaintiff had no reasonable possibility of filing suit within two years of the incident."

Police sources attributed great importance to this and other similar rulings, saying they would send the message to plaintiffs that there is no point in continuing to file such suits.

Meanwhile, security forces evacuated the illegal West Bank outpost of Reches Sela outside Nablus yesterday and arrested 8 settlers who were gathered at the site.

Soldiers razed a temporary building set up at the site, but shortly after they left the structure was rebuilt.

As soldiers began to affect the evacuation, they had to contend with around 25 people who were attempting to build a wooden house on the site.

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