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| Israeli border police remove a Palestinian activist from an outpost of tents in a disputed area known as E1. Ammar Awad/Reuters |
The encampment, which the protesters called the village of Bab al-Shams
(Arabic for “Gate of the Sun”), represented a new kind of action by
Palestinian grass-roots activists involved in what they describe as the
nonviolent popular struggle against the Israeli occupation.
Employing a tactic more commonly used by Jewish settlers who establish
wildcat outposts in the West Bank, the protesters had pitched their
tents on Friday on what they said was privately owned land, and with the
permission of the Palestinian landowners. They were immediately served
eviction notices by the Israeli military authorities, but their lawyers
had obtained a temporary injunction against their removal from the High
Court of Justice until the state detailed the grounds for such a move.
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