Israel’s High Court of Justice on Monday, 13 Cheshvan 5777 rejected a request from the state to extend the deadline for the evacuation and expulsion of Amona, in the Shomron. The community of approximately forty families is slated for destruction as per a High Court ruling no later than the end of December 2016.
Having failed to reach a solution to the matter and in light of the adamant refusal of Amona residents to be relocated elsewhere, the state petitioned the court seeking a half-year delay in the implementation of the decision.
Justices Naor, Hayut and Melzer responded by rejecting the request, insisting on compliance with its ruling to destroy Amona by December 25, 2016.
The ball now moves to the Knesset after the Ministerial Law Committee on Sunday, 13 Cheshvan, unanimously passed the Normalization Bill intended to circumvent the High Court demolition order for Amona. The bill is on the agenda to be presented in Knesset on Wednesday, 15 Cheshvan for a vote.
Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit has expressed opposition to the bill, which he feels will lead to legal action against Israel in the international forum and possibly the International Court of Justice in The Hague.
(YWN – Israel Desk, Jerusalem)
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This High Court of InJustice has never destroyed any of the thousands of illegal Arab homes though. Their hatred towards Jews are a disgrace.
The High Court in Israel is, no doubt, the most corrupt Court in the world. In “Democratic” Israel LOL the judges grabbed the judicial court when the Zionists setup their governments in 1948 and have since then been self-elected-for-life. When will the Israeli public wake up and force them down? They should be replaced with the new Prime Ministers, just like they have it in the US.
I do not understand why these 40 families in Amona are to be evicted ? What laws/crimes have they committed ?
If it is to satisfy some UN resolution or a PLO protest, then “nuts”to that.
B’vah’hah’shah, may I as a goy suggest that all Jews try their best to more Torah observant.
A goy,
Gerry Mullen, Riverside, NJ