Evictions From Hevron Outpost on Shabbat
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IDF Spokesman: “The problem was the youths sleeping in the field without coordination [with the military]. As for Sabbath desecration: it can be assumed that if they would have remained there, a greater Sabbath desecration would have taken place. The location itself is very close to [Kiryat Arba] and therefore, we returned them to the Kirya. We put no one in the jeep and several youths initially went independently.”
Kiryat Arba Sources: “The local civilian security chief informed the army before Shabbat that youths intended to sleep at the Hagiborim outpost. Such an arrangement has apparently been the norm for the past three years. When the security chief was later ordered to attend to the eviction of the youths, he was told that ‘higher-ups in the brigade requested and said that they must be removed now.'”