WEST BANK: Jewish settlers in the West Bank clash with Israeli security as tensions mount over the settlement freeze

Record ID: 562504

  • Title: WEST BANK: Jewish settlers in the West Bank clash with Israeli security as tensions mount over the settlement freeze
  • Date: 16th December 2009
  • Summary: TZOFIM, WEST BANK (DECEMBER 15, 2009) (AMATEUR VIDEO) PLEASE NOTE -- QUALITY AS INCOMING -- JEWISH SETTLERS AND ISRAELI SECURITY FORCES GATHERING AT JEWISH SETTLEMENT OF TZOFIM IN WEST BANK VARIOUS OF SETTLERS AND SECURITY CLASHING YOUTH ON THE GROUND MORE OF CLASHING YOUTH BEING ARRESTED MAN ON THE GROUND SECURITY FORCES PULLING CAR TIRES MORE OF SECURITY FORCES AND SETTLERS CLASHING WIDE OF CLASHES VARIOUS OF PEOPLE CHANTING, POLICE MORE OF SETTLERS CHANTING WITH FIRE BURNING NEARBY
  • Embargoed: 31st December 2009 12:00
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  • Topics: International Relations,Domestic Politics
  • Reuters ID: LVA3D9YFZ64SNH2WO7URGLR2XWEN
  • Story Text: Israeli security forces enforcing the government moratorium on new buildings in Jewish settlements clashed with settlers in a Tzofim enclave on Tuesday (December 15) after the settlers refused to allow government inspectors into the settlement.
    An amateur video released to Reuters showed settlers erecting makeshift barricades to prevent the inspectors from entering the settlement and scuffling with security forces.
    Several settlers were arrested during the protest.
    Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu last month ordered a 10-month freeze on some building in West Bank settlements.
    The moratorium does not include public buildings or around 3,000 already approved houses and it does not apply to East Jerusalem areas in the West Bank which the Jewish state has annexed in a move not recognized internationally.
    Announcing the moratorium Netanyahu assured the 300,000 Jewish settlers in the West Bank that "natural growth" of communities, in the form of schools and other public buildings, would go on in the 10 months of restriction on new building permits.
    A further 200,000 Jewish Israelis live on occupied land that Israel has incorporated into what it regards as its capital, Jerusalem, despite international refusal to recognise that and the Palestinian claim to a share of the city as their capital.
    Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas wants a full settlement freeze that includes East Jerusalem as a condition for resuming peace talks suspended since December.
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