Settlers to Benjamin Netanyahu: Do not take down our homes

Settlers on Sunday set up a protest tent near Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s Jerusalem residence to urge him not to destroy their small neighborhood of 43 homes in the West Bank settlement of Kochav Hashahar.

 

Although the homes, which make up the Mitzpe Kramim neighborhood, are within the settlements boundaries, they were built on private Palestinian property.

 

On March 16, just one day before the elections for a new government, the state is expected to present its plans for the homes in the Mitzpe Kramim neighborhood to the High Court of Justice, which is responding to a petition by Palestinians.

 

Doron Leshem, a spokesman for Mitzpe Kramim said the community was first created as an outpost in the 1990s on state land located outside the boundaries of Kochav Hashahar.

 

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