Police ask court to remand five arrested settlers

Two of the Jewish settlers arrested Thursday during the forced evacuation of the outpost at Mitzpeh Yitzhar were remanded in police custody by the Kfar Sava Magistrates Court on Friday, while three others, including two minors, were released into house arrest.

Army Radio reported that police and IDF troops dismantled a new settlement outpost that was erected overnight in protest at the evacuation of Mitzpeh Yitzhar. The forces dismantled tents and generators that had been taken to the outpost near Neveh Tzuf. The outpost was erected at the spot where two Israeli women were shot and seriously wounded on June 13. The settlers were removed from the site in buses.

Earlier on Friday, Likud MK Yehiel Hazan called on all citizens of Israel to build settlements wherever they want in the West Bank irrespective of whether such action was legal or not, Israel Radio reported.

"We will demand from all citizens of Israel to come and settle wherever they want, whether it's legal or illegal," Hazan told Israel Radio. "For us it doesn't matter because when there is terror, it is terror that must be fought, not Jews."

The comments by Hazen, who is a resident of the West Bank settlement of Ariel, come one day after the IDF completed the evacuation of Mitzpeh Yitzhar, the first populated settlement outpost to be dismantled.

But Pinchas Wallerstein, chairman of the Binyamin Regional Council, said that while it was the democratic obligation of settlers to defend their belifs, those who did so in an illegal fashion could be put on trial.

"If someone went outside the boundaries of the law (in resisting the Mitzpeh Yitzhar evacuation) he can be put on trial," Wallerstein told Israel Radio.

"We will lead all of our battles within the framework of legitimate social battles that will lead to a decision by Israeli society...It is our democratic obligation to fight for our opinions."

Wallerstein also said that settlers will fight agains the road map peace plan with "all of our power."

Soldiers were posted at the site Thursday night to make sure settlers did not attempt to rebuild what was destroyed Thursday - an attempt both the IDF and the settlers consider a virtual certainty.

The Yesha Council of settlements said Thursday it intends to build new outposts on the site of all those that have been dismantled so far, and council chairman Benzi Lieberman said some new outposts have already been established, though he declined to say where or how many.

"This is our land, our home," said Yitzhar resident Yossi Peled. "Tomorrow we will be here again, on this hill or on other hills."

	A settler praying as IDF soldiers stand nearby at the Mitzpeh Yitzhar outpost in the West Bank on Friday. (AP)