Migron, Mateh Binyamin

Migron ( Ivrit: מגרון ) is a former, according to Israeli law considers illegal Israeli settlement ( מאחז, Ma'ahaz, English Outpost. ) With 300 residents in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, approximately 15 kilometers north of Jerusalem, about six kilometers north of Ramallah, Palestinian autonomous areas. She was evicted on September 2, 2012 by Israel Defense Forces.

The settlement, which belonged to the county Mateh Binyamin, was born from 2001 on private land of Palestinians from the village of Burqa near Ramallah. Migron is mentioned in the Bible ( 1 Sam 14.2 EU). The Israeli Ministry of urban development they promoted with 4.3 million shekels ( nearly 1 million euros ), while the Ministry of Defence refused to give his approval. It came in 2006 to an action of the landowners and the Israeli non-governmental organization Shalom Achschaw (English Peace Now, Ivrit שלום עכשיו ) before the Israeli Supreme Court, which ruled on August 2, 2011, the settlement had been built illegally and had until April 2012 be vacated. The government, however, decided to give the settlers in 2015. The court reiterated its March 25, 2012, and ruled that the armed forces would have to vacate the settlement until 1 August 2012. This happened in early September, 2012. There was little resistance.

The settlers new homes were built in another settlement in the West Bank. The government has invested the equivalent of six million euros.

More than 200 Israeli settlements and outposts in the West Bank should be vacated earlier, according to roadmap of 2003, but the settlers refuse to leave most.

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