The High Court of Justice reversed its decision: the Mitzpe Kerami settlement will not be evacuated

The supreme judges overturned, by majority opinion, the decision made in 2020, according to which the houses built on Palestinian land must be destroyed.

Mitzpe Karemi was moved from its location in 2000, following the formation of the "outpost agreement", but it turned out that the land to which it was moved was partly private

Yael Fridson

07/27/2022

Wednesday, July 27, 2022, 5:53 p.m. Updated: 6:08 p.m.

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Ten arrested during the evacuation of illegal buildings in Binyamin outposts (Photo: TPS, Editing: Jordana Avodi-Fox)

Today (Wednesday) the High Court reversed its decision from 2020, when the supreme judges decided by a majority opinion that the houses in the Mitzpe Caremi settlement would not be evicted. The decision was made about two years ago, contrary to the position of former prosecutor Avichai Mandelblit, who believed that they could be qualified.

In the previous ruling, the court stated that in the current case, a large part of the responsibility for the difficult and painful result for the residents of Mitzpe Kerim rests with the state.

Then the judges ordered that the evacuation of the buildings be carried out within three years, and only after the residents are allocated alternative land on state land and alternative buildings are built for them, or the existing buildings are copied to it.

The entrance to the Mitzpe Kerami outpost (Photo: Flash 90, Yonatan Zindel, Flash 90)

Mitzpe Karemi was initially established as an outpost to the southwest of the settlement of Kochav Hashar.

In 1999, the "Outposts Agreement" was drawn up between the leaders of the Yesha Council and between the Prime Minister and Defense Minister at the time, Ehud Barak, in which it was agreed on the evacuation and freezing of certain outposts and the relocation of others, and in 2000 Mitzpe Karmi moved to its current

location. The current location of the outpost was determined on The basis of the outline plan of the settlement Kochav Hashahar - but then it became clear that although it is within the outline plan of the settlement, some of the buildings in it were erected on private Palestinian land, and not on state land as initially thought.

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