Tag Archive for Migron

For all to know: ‘For Every Community that is Destroyed We’ll Build Another’

It’s a hard day for the people of Migron, but we hope they’ll be able to return. – spokesperson for the Binyamin Regional Council

By Elad Benari & Hezki Ezra

 

Arutz Sheva spoke on Sunday with Miri Maoz Ovadia, spokesperson and foreign desk liaison of the Binyamin Regional Council, as 50 families from the community of Migron were being evicted (view photo gallery) from their homes.

Ovadia reacted to the expulsion and called it “a very hard day for the people of Migron.”

“Families with children and toddlers who have lived here for ten years were forced out of their homes,” she said. Continue Reading »

Court rejects Migron deal; orders evacuation by August 1

In dramatic ruling, High Court justices reject request to delay voluntary evacuation of outpost built on private Palestinian land until 2015. Petitioners’ attorney: Court showed no one is above the law

 

The High Court of Justice rejected on Sunday the compromise agreement reached between the State and the residents of the Migron outpost in the West Bank.

The judges, headed by Supreme Court President Asher Grunis, ruled that the outpost must be evacuated by August 1. The annulled compromise deal stated that the outpost’s residents would voluntarily relocate to state-owned land situated on a nearby hill within three-and-a-half years

In its ruling, the court chastised the State for failing to evacuate Migron. Continue Reading »