Dozens of police officers and Civil Administration inspectors raided Givat Tal Binyamin near the town of Tapuach this morning (Tuesday), destroying a greenhouse of a local resident and a corner of Hemed that was used by residents of the area.
In addition, the forces demolished a shepherds’ hut used by Avraham Herzlich – an 80-year-old shepherd from the town of Tapuach, who has been grazing his sheep in the area for over three decades. According to the residents, the sukkah was demolished by the forces without any order or warning in advance – which seems to be a deliberate harassment by the government of Herzlich, which maintains the Jewish presence around Tapuach, and settlement around Tapuach in general.
The buildings on the hill were demolished by the forces as part of a High Court ruling on the place, but the residents accuse the state and the defense minister at the time of proposing to the High Court on their own initiative to demolish the place and the High Court only granted the request.
On the hill, they sharply attacked the destruction: “This morning’s destruction is a direct instruction of small and rogue politicians, who instead of engaging in the war on terror send the best security forces on a campaign of destruction in the Jewish settlement.” They added that “the destruction of the shepherds’ arbor this morning shows that the destruction was carried out as part of a deliberate policy of harassment of the settlement outlined by the government, and not really of one legal constraint or another.”