This article is about Israeli security being force to evict scores of Palestinian activists from a tent encampment they had set up in a strategic piece of Israeli-occupied West Bank territory. Protesters called the encampment the village of Bab al-Shams (Arabic for "Gate of the Sun"). It represented a new kind of action by Palestinian grass-roots activist involved in what they called a nonviolent popular struggle against the Israeli occupation.
The protesters pitched their tents on what they said was privately owned land with pro mission from the landowners. They were immediately served eviction notices by the Israeli military. On saturday evening the Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu issued a statement saying he had ordered security forces to evacuate "forthwith" the Palestinians who had gathered in the area between Jerusalem and the large urban settlement of Maale Adumim.
The state responded that they protesters where on territory that Israel had declared state land. The court overturned the injunction, resulting the the removal of the protesters. Israeli plans to build in West Bank have been opposed by many counties, including the United States, saying the construction there would separate the northern and souther West Bam which is harmful to the prospects of a viable contiguous Palestinian state in that territory. None of the protester where hurt in the eviction, but they had to removed them one by one using some extreme force when needed.
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/13/world/middleeast/israeli-police-evict-palestinian-protesters-from-e-1.html?ref=middleeast
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