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Israeli forces remove West Bank settler outpost, riling rightists in government

FILE PHOTO: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich hold a news conference at the Prime Minister's office in Jerusalem, January 11, 2023. REUTERS/Ronen Zvulun/File Photo

Israeli security forces on Friday evicted a small group of Jewish settlers from an outpost they erected hours earlier in the occupied West Bank, upsetting pro-settlement members of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's government.

The group had built a handful of small, temporary structures on a rocky field near a larger Jewish settlement, according to pictures carried by Israeli media. Similar outposts have been built and removed many times over the years.

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