3:36PM IL: Residents of Amona on motzei Shabbos were presented with a final offer by Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and Bayit Yehudi leader Naftali Bennett. The residents have spent the day reviewing the offer, which was approved during the afternoon hours. They will relocated a few dozen meters away to Plot 38, an area on the same hilltop. 45 residents who took part in the vote approved the deal while 25 opposed and 2 residents abstained.
The new arrangement will provide a solution permitting 24 of the 40 families to remain on the hilltop with the government promising to begin work immediately. Most believe this is absolutely the best offer the residents could receive, aware of the fact in this case the government’s hands are tied by the High Court of Justice.
The decision to expel residents and dismantle the community is not the government’s but the High Court’s ruling in a case challenging the ownership of the land, presented on behalf of PA (Palestinian Authority) residents. The court ruled Amona is situated on privately-owned Arab land and set a deadline of December 25, 2016 for the eviction of residents and removal of the community.
(YWN – Israel Desk, Jerusalem)
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The world is upside down. Let us Jews have our Jewish land. Everyone is LAUGHING at us! Just in time for Chanukkah, you act like the Syrian-Greeks of old. We need another miracle, please Hashem! Save!