The Israeli high court of justice on Sunday approved the postponement of a court verdict ordering the demolition of illegal housing units built by Ofra settlers on Palestinian land in the occupied West Bank.
Nine housing units were scheduled for demolition in the illegal settlement of Ofra east of Ramallah on February 8 2017 in compliance with a court order issued in 2015.
According to the Agence France Presse (AFP) court documents issued by the Israeli ministry of justice asserted that Jewish settlers from Ofra had filed a request with the high court asking for delaying the demolition of their housing units for three months at the pretext of finishing preparations for moving to other homes.
However the high court only gave them until March 5th to evacuate the units before removing them.
In a related context the Israeli Knesset on Monday intends to bring for a final vote a bill calling for retroactively legalizing thousands of settlers’ housing units in the West Bank.
