以色列警方计划星期四用推土机拆除约旦河西岸的一个非法犹太人定居点，之前驱逐了那里约50个犹太家庭。
几百名抗议者设立了路障，并向执行法院命令清除阿马纳定居点的警察投掷石块。阿马纳是巴勒斯坦权力机构总部拉马拉东北部的一个犹太定居点。
愤怒的抗议者和定居者向警察喊道：“犹太人不要驱逐犹太人。”有大约20名警察受伤。
大多数定居者带着他们的物品，拉着孩子安静离开。有些人发誓要回来。
以色列总理内塔尼亚胡一天前批准了建造3000个新住所，提供给撤出的定居者和西岸其他地方的人。
阿马纳是未经批准在西岸建立的大约100个定居点中最大的一个，之前以色列政府对之抱以容忍态度。
巴勒斯坦人认为，在他们希望是未来国土的部分地区兴建的犹太定居点是以巴和平的主要障碍。以色列则说，巴勒斯坦人拒绝承认犹太国家是中东和平的阻碍。
令以色列极为不满的是，美国前总统奥巴马的政府就联合国安全理事会12月通过的一项称这些定居点为非法，并要求以色列停止建设的决议投下了弃权票，而不是否决票。新上任的川普政府至今一直对以色列的定居点建设保持沉默，但犹太定居者们星期三对记者表示，他们期望新的美国政府不会阻挠在西岸建立新一轮定居点。
Israeli police bulldozers plan to start knocking down dozens of homes Thursday after evicting about 50 Jewish families from an illegal settlement in the West Bank.
Several hundred protesters set up barricades and threw stones at police who came to carry out the court-ordered evacuation of Amona, a Jewish settlement northeast of Ramallah, the headquarters of the Palestinian Authority.
Angry protesters and settlers yelled at the police that "Jews don't expel Jews." About 20 officers were hurt.
Most of the settlers left quietly, carrying their belongings, holding children by the hand. Some vowed to return.
One day earlier, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu approved 3,000 new homes for the evacuated settlers and others elsewhere in the West Bank.
Amona is the largest of around 100 unauthorized outposts erected in the West Bank without permission but - until now - generally tolerated by the Israeli government.
Palestinians say Jewish settlements on land they want as part of a future state are a major impediment to peace. Israel says the Palestinians' refusal to recognize the Jewish state is blocking Mideast peace.
Israel was furious when the United States, under former President Barack Obama, abstained instead of vetoing a U.N. Security Council resolution in December calling the settlements illegal and demanding Israel stop building them. The new Trump White House has so far been silent on Israeli settlement construction, but Jewish settlers told reporters Wednesday they expect the new U.S. administration will not stand in the way of a new wave of settlements in the West Bank.
