Israeli settlers rebuild outpost dismantled two days ago

0 Comments | AFP, December, 2003

JERUSALEM (AFP) — Jewish settlers announced that they had rebuilt an uninhabited outpost in the northern West Bank which the army dismantled two days ago.

Israeli Defence Minister Shaul Mofaz last week announced that eight outposts deemed illegal by Israel would be removed as a bid to comply with the internationally-backed roadmap peace blueprint.

Havat Shaked -- which consists of little more than one prefab building on a hilltop -- was the first to be dismantled on Monday.

A handful of radical young settlers had then briefly resisted the 20 policemen tasked with dismantling the outpost.

Two inhabited outposts are also on Mofaz's list, one of which is Migron near Ramallah, where settlers leaders have established the headquarters of their campaign to...