The case deals with the removal of the Givat Lahava outpost near Yitzhar in 2004. The outpost consisted of two caravan homes used by Yitzchak Sendrau from Yitzhar and Yosef Pilant from Rechovot, senior figures in the Vaad L’maan Eretz Yisrael.
The two were served with orders to halt building at the site, orders that were ignored, as was a subsequent warning. In January 2005, agents of the Civil Administration arrived and the outpost was dismantled. The two filed suit against the state, seeking compensatory payment due to the damage to their property. The Tel Aviv Prosecutor’s Office filed a counter suit, in which the state described the confrontation that took place during the evacuation, detailing the violence against security forces.
As a result, the court ruled they must compensate the IDF and Israel Police to the tune of NIS 578,349, the detailed cost of removing the outpost. Netanya Magistrate’s Court Justice Colandar Abramowitz decided that the two must compensate the state. She accepted the state’s contentions regarding the cost involved, in no small part the result of the resistance and violence encountered by security personnel.
Attorney Aviad Visuly of the Vaad L’maan Eretz Yisrael explained his clients never received the suit and now they learn that they are responsible for compensatory payment. They were not provided an opportunity to respond to the suit, Visuly explained to the media.
Yitzhar officials decried the process which they feel is another proof of the state’s systematic attacks against yishuvim, not granting the two due process of law, not even the opportunity to respond to the lawsuit.
(Yechiel Spira – YWN Israel)
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