Israeli army removes settlement

Published August 8, 2002

PSAGOT (West Bank), Aug 7: The Israeli army on Wednesday started dismantling a wildcat settlement set up at dawn close to the Jewish settlement of Psagot near the West Bank town of Ramallah.

Soldiers met no opposition as they removed, one-by-one, the five empty caravans into which three settler families had been planning to move.

The secretary of Psagot, Yiheh Hamdi, said: “We have decided to settle on a hilltop near Psagot in response to the killing last month of three Psagot residents,” Yideh Hamdi.

“This is a Zionist response to the murders,” he explained, adding that the action was taken despite there being no permission to do so.—AFP

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