Tel Aviv:Residents of f a wildcat settlement in the Israeli-occupied West Bank voted yesterday to evacuate their hilltop outpost peacefully, a week before a court-imposed deadline for their eviction. They approved a revised government proposal to relocate by a vote of 45 for and 29 against, a spokesperson wrote on the outpost's Twitter account.
The 40 families living at Amona in the northern West Bank faced a Supreme Court order to leave the site by December 25 because it was found to have been built on private Palestinian land. The dispute over whether to demolish the outpost northeast of Ramallah has taken on international importance because of concern over settlement expansion in the West Bank, occupied by Israel since 1967.
