- Title: ISRAEL/WEST BANK: ISRAELI SECURITY FORCES ARREST JEWISH SETTLERS ON HILLTOP
- Date: 1st August 1995
- Summary: BEIT EL, WEST BANK/ KIBBUTZ GILGAL, JORDAN VALLEY, ISRAEL (AUGUST 1, 1995) (RTV - ACCESS ALL) BEIT EL, WEST BANK 1. GV/SLV POLICE CARRYING AWAY SETTLERS TO BUSES (4 SHOTS) 0.17 2. GV/SV SETTLERS BEING PUT ONTO BUS/ SCUFFLES ALONGSIDE (5 SHOTS) 0.44 3. GV/SV DEMONSTRATORS IN FRONT OF BUS/ BUS WITH FLAT TYRE/ BUS ATTEMPTS TO DRIVE T
- Embargoed: 16th August 1995 13:00
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- Location: BEIT EL, WEST BANK/ KIBBUTZ GILGAL, JORDAN VALLEY, ISRAEL
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- Country: Palestinian Territories
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- Story Text: Israeli security forces arrested one hundred settlers on Tuesday (August 1) who set up a tent site on a hill near the Palestinian West Bank town of Ramallah.
Police and soldiers dragged dozens of Jewish settlers from a hilltop by the Beit El Jewish settlement and forced them onboard "arrest" buses.
Other settlers punctured tyres of the buses and blocked roads with burning tyres to prevent those arrested from being taken away.
Early on Tuesday, hundreds of settlers protesting the spread of Palestinian self-rule to the West Bank shouted and chanted as police and soldiers dragged them from the hilltop.
Police used bulldozers to demolish barricades erected by the settlers. They also destroyed two temporary lean-to's built by the protesters.
Jewish settlers have begun erecting tents on barren hilltops as a latest move in their campaign against expanding Palestinian self-rule in the West Bank.
In recent weeks they have also symbolically enlarged existing settlements and built roads.
The settlers say the West Bank is part of the biblical land of Israel which should never be given up.
Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin on Tuesday said he would not tolerate "violation of the law" by Jewish settlers.
Speaking at Kibbutz Gilgal in the Jordan Valley after dedicating a new road that bypasses the autonomous enclave of Jericho, Rabin told reporters that Israel is a democratic country but Jewish settlers violating the law will be removed by those in charge.
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