JERUSALEM, June 17 (Xinhua) -- Israeli pro-settlement activists attacked and injured Israeli police officers during a court-ordered eviction of an illegal outpost in the occupied West Bank on Sunday, the police said.
The clashes started as hundreds of police officers arrived in Tapuah Maarav, a Jewish outpost in the northern West Bank, to evict 10 houses that were built without permits.
The Supreme Court ruled that these houses were built illegally on privately-owned Palestinian land and should be evicted by the end of June.
A police statement said that by noon, some 11 police officers were injured and six settlers were arrested for rioting.
Under the international law, all Jewish settlements in the West Bank and East Jerusalem, territories occupied by Israel in the 1967 Middle East war, are illegal.
However, Israel charges that the settlements, home to some 600,000 Israelis who live in heavily guarded communities among about 3 million Palestinians, are legal.
Outposts like Tapuah Maarav are settlements built without official permits from the Israeli authorities and are also deemed illegal under the Israeli law.
