Israeli setters attempt to reoccupy evacuated W.B settlement for the third time in two weeks

Tuesday July 31, 2007 17:11 by Ghassan Bannoura - IMEMC News & Agencies

Israeli police and army troops forcibly removed around 30 Israeli right-wing settlers from location of the evacuated West Bank settlement of Homesh early Tuesday morning.

Today attempt by the setters was the fourth in lest than two weeks, this former settlement was evacuated as part of the disengagement in August 2005.

Last week security forces removed a few hundred demonstrators who were attempting to construct a building on the site of the ruins. Also last week, police removed a group of youths who had squatted in the area for two days, Israeli media reported.

The Palestinian Census Bureau issued a report stating that there are 144 Israeli settlements, housing 476,000 Israeli settlers, spread all over the West Bank, including the occupied city of Jerusalem.

The report, which is for the year 2006, states that 26 of those settlements are in the occupied city of Jerusalem, 16 of them already annexed to Jerusalem.

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