The Border Police and the Civil Administration destroyed several buildings in the Oz Zion and Tzur Harel illegal outposts and their access roads on Sunday night.
The outposts were previously destroyed by Civil Administration of Judea and Samaria inspectors and were rebuilt.
“It is sad to see that at a time when our family members are being recruited into the IDF and are at the front, during days when the State of Israel is being attacked by our enemies all around, the security system has decided that we are the real enemy and has sent large forces to destroy our home and prevent Jewish inhabiting of the Land of Israel,” said Shmuel Hazani, whose house was destroyed and whose wedding is to take place in two weeks. “We have no intention of breaking [our resolve], and we will start rebuilding our house today.”
'An eternal disgrace'
On Monday, Tzur Harel said in a statement: “Once again, the security establishment has put harming the settlement and the Land of Israel at the top of its priorities. The disgraceful surrender of the security establishment to the pressure of the Palestinian Authority ministers who support terrorism, who a few days ago visited the terrorist village of Burka together with an international antisemitic delegation and promised to fight Jewish settlement, will be remembered eternally in disgrace.”
“The destruction and the administrative expulsion orders will not discourage us,” it said. “We will continue with all our strength to hold on to the holy land of our ancestors and avoid a hostile takeover and the establishment of a Palestinian state in the territories of Judea and Samaria.”
About a month and a half ago, there were severe clashes between hilltop youth and security forces during the evacuation of an illegal outpost in the West Bank after Civil Administration officers accompanied by Border Police officers came to dismantle an illegal structure that was erected on private land in the Oz Zion outpost. The forces destroyed six buildings and an access road.
During the evacuation of the outpost, the youths tried to prevent its demolition and set fire to tires, a vehicle, and threw stones and firebombs at the security forces. Some of the youths entrenched themselves in buildings.
In response, the forces used crowd-dispersal measures.