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The Jerusalem Magistrates' Court released Sunday seven of the Jewish youths it arrested at the Samaria outpost of Ramat Migron Saturday. Two were released without bail and the remaining five were sent into house arrest and had to make a 10,000 shekel deposit as security. The other six youths arrested Saturday were released earlier Sunday, directly from HaSharon Prison where they were being held. Attorney Naftali Wirtzberger of NGO Honenu claimed that the police made cynical use of the fact that the public's attention was turned to security problems in the South, in order to tear down the outpost at...

Security forces are now demolishing the Ramat Migron outpost in Benjamin.

Israel will build 50 new homes in an existing West Bank settlement as part of a wider plan to absorb residents slated to be evicted from the illegal outpost of Migron. The complete plan calls for the construction of 1,450 homes in the settlement of Adam. The State Prosecutor's Office informed the High Court on Friday that 190 housing units will be built in the settlement of Adam in the first stage, in accordance with the plan, which was approved by the Defense Ministry in May. However, only 50 of the units can be erected without further approval from the...

Settlers in the unauthorized Migron outpost turned to the Jerusalem Magistrates Court this week in hopes of staving off the evacuation of their small hilltop community, erected during 2002 in the Judean hills. On Monday they asked the court to rule on the status of their outpost, which the state has said is constructed on private Palestinian land. The settlers contend that this classification is erroneous, according to their attorney, Daniel Kramer. They have asked the court to reclassify the land as abandoned property, save for one portion which they purchased from Palestinians. In that instance, they are asking the...