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Large numbers of Border Police mobilized early Thursday morning and moved on the new community (known as an outpost in the general media) of Mitzpe Yitzhar, demolishing two buildings at the site. Residents reported that the military forces sneaked into the community by coming in through a side road, via the Arab village of Innabus, instead of via the main road into the area. Mitzpe Yitzhar is located adjacent to the central Samaria community of Yitzhar. The forces demolished a caravan used as living space, and a building for agricultural use. Security forces are spread out around the area and...

Government forces set out after dark Monday night to destroy five budding Jewish communities in Judea and Samaria. Residents of the central Samaria outpost of Ramat Gilad received a message late in the evening that Israel Police officers and IDF soldiers were "on the way" to their location first. The residents told Arutz Sheva they believed "the army will attempt to throw us out of our homes and demolish them." Residents of nearby Karnei Shomron and other towns in the area were alerted to the situation and reportedly began to make their way towards the site. Michal Shoham of Ramat...