Israeli court rejects plea to keep controversial West Bank settlement

‘Israel’s Supreme Court has dismissed a petition by Tel Aviv to delay the evacuation and demolition of an illegal Israeli settlement outpost in the occupied West Bank beyond a late December deadline.
The high court ruled on Monday that the evacuation of Amona, located northeast of Ramallah in the central West Bank, “must occur before December 25” and rejected the delay requested.”
The Israeli regime had sought a seven-month delay irrespective of an earlier ruling in 2014 by the Supreme Court that Amona was constructed on private Palestinian land, and must be razed.’
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