The High Court of Justice has approved a request by the State to delay by 45 days the evacuation of the Jewish community of Amona.
The homes of 40 families – some 300 Jews – are built on a section of the town which the Court has ruled is privately owned by a citizen of the Palestinian Authority.
The approval came Thursday after Amona residents declared in a written document that they would evacuate the site peacefully, without conditions, without conflict or resistance, on the new evacuation date, which is to be February 8.
By that time, it is expected that the homes of 24 of the 40 families in Amona will have been moved by the state to a new plot of land within the community’s municipal boundaries – Lot 38 – which will by then have been officially declared state land and zoned for residential use. The land is currently held under the law of Absentee Landowners’ / Abandoned Property.
The other 16 families will have moved to temporary dwellings in the nearby town of Ofra, northeast of Ramallah.