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(30 Dec 1999) English/Nat
VOICED BY: LOUISE BATES

Israeli soldiers evacuated dozens of Jewish settlers from a West Bank hill near the settlement of Tekoa on Thursday.

The new outpost was "created" on Wednesday night, when a group of fifty young settlers tried to make the former Israeli army base their new home.

0002 Fifty young people came to "settle" in Tekoa, a hill in the West Bank on Wednesday. It used to be an Israeli army base, but it was evacuated two months ago. The young settlers decided that in order to keep the territory, they had to set up home there.

0019 But Tekoa is now supposed to be handed over to the Palestinian authorities....something that settler Shimon Riklin doesn't accept.

0025 SOUNDBITE (English)
" It is not a protest, it is a saying. We are saying something
to the people in Israel."
Q. What are you saying?
A. "Stop the give up on your land because this is the beginning of
the distortion of the nation of Israel".
SUPER CAPTION: Shimon Riklin, Israeli Settler

0037 It was the job of the Israeli army to dismantle this makeshift settlement.

0040 ...and evacuate the settlers. It was necessary to use force.

0049 They removed the young people for the first time at dawn on Thursday morning

....But the settlers returned and had to be forcibly removed again at noon.

0102 Meanwhile, in the West Bank town of Hebron, dozens of Palestinians and a few Israeli peace activists demonstrated at a disputed piece of land that Jewish settlers have claimed.

0112 Israeli soldiers tried to prevent the protesters, but after shoving and pushing the they reached the land and held their prayers.

0120 The Israeli security forces again found themselves in the middle of rival bids for disputed territory.

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