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Justice Minister Ayelet Shaked (Jewish home) said Sunday night that Khan Al-Ahmar's illegal Bedouin outpost would soon be evacuated.
Speaking at a Jewish Home conference at Ma-aleh Adumim, Shaked explained why she had voted in the government against the postponement of the evacuation.
"Minister Bennett and I were opposed today to the postponement of the evacuation, lest, if the evacuation is postponed each time, it will not be realized, I think we will be able to to exert pressure and the illegal post will be evacuated, "said Shaked, who added that Khan Al-Ahmar is anything but a colony owned by innocent Bedouins.
"The Palestinian Authority and the European Union are exerting great pressure in the context of a political battle and the state of Israel must remain on its positions. in terms of strategic location, but also with regard to a principle, we expect that Ma'Aleh Adumim will be enlarged and we certainly should not allow illegal settlements, "she added.
Earlier Sunday, the security cabinet voted in favor of Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu's proposal to postpone for several weeks the planned demolition of an illegal Bedouin camp east of Jerusalem.
The Khan al-Ahmar illegal community, established in the 1990s, is home to between 170 and 180 Bedouins settled on a strip of land adjacent to the Israeli city of Kfar Adumim, east of Jerusalem.
Israeli courts have repeatedly confirmed the demolition orders against the illegal community, resulting in the Supreme Court's final rejection of residents' claims in a ruling last month.
Last week, the chief prosecutor of the ICC warned Israel that the demolition could be interpreted as a war crime.
On Saturday, sources in the prime minister's office said the government was reluctant to demolish Khan Al-Ahmar "to exhaust negotiations and proposals received from various sources, including some in recent days."
In his speech on Sunday, Shaked also reacted to the verbal attack on MP Shelly Yechimovich (Zionist Union) in the Knesset. During a speech delivered in front of the Knesset memorial in honor of former prime minister Yitzhak Rabin, Yechimovich accused leaders of the nationalist camp of inciting hatred against the left .
"She made a cynical political use of the day, it is a difficult day for all of Israeli society, it must be used for unity and not for division, but unfortunately she and other politicians are using this day. to attack the entire right, "said the organization. Shaked said.
"The incentive, unfortunately, exists on the right and on the left, we have to go down together, but unfortunately, instead of speaking, they have chosen to blame a whole public of complicity, pronounced on a day like this," he said. the Minister of Justice.
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