Security services evacuated and demolished five illegal settlement outposts on Monday, including the Har Hatzor outpost which was the scene of severe settler violence against IDF personnel on Friday night, settler activists reported.

The enforcement activity comes against the background of the Har Hatzor incident, as well as a violent protest by radical settler activists at the Binyamin Regional Brigade military base in the West Bank, and an arson attack at an IDF security installation in the territory.

Settler leaders condemned the latest settler violence, with the head of the Yesha Council umbrella group calling on the police to find and charge those responsible for the arson attack as quickly as possible.

And in a visit to the IDF’s West Bank division on Monday, Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Eyal Zamir called the violence “unacceptable,” after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and other senior politicians also condemned the attacks.

“The mission is clear — to maintain security, protect civilians, and strengthen settlement defense, while not accepting the unacceptable behavior of extremist and violent groups,” Zamir was quoted as saying regarding the growing phenomenon of........

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