Israeli Court Allows Removal of Tents in ‘E1’ Area
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Version 0 of 1. Israel’s Supreme Court gave the government the go-ahead on Wednesday to remove tents that Palestinian activists had pitched on a patch of West Bank land marked for Jewish settlements. On Sunday, the Israeli police evicted 50 Palestinian protesters from the site, in the “E1” area outside the Arab suburbs of East Jerusalem. But the activists’ tents remained standing in accordance with a court order banning the government from tearing them down while judges considered a Palestinian claim of ownership of the land where the encampment had been built. The court’s new ruling agreed with the government’s argument that the tents could be a magnet for violent Palestinian protests. |