Eviction orders issued against encampments in Holon and suburbs of Tel Aviv and Haifa; Association for Civil Rights in Israel says removal of activists infringes on right to protest.
Local officials are putting pressure on activists to clear away their remaining tents after they said they would be pulling up stakes and moving on to the next phase of the social protest.
On Sunday morning in the Haifa suburb of Kiryat Motzkin, for example, municipal workers removed the remaining tents when the encampment was empty.
Activists later returned, said they had not abandoned the site and put their tents back up. Yesterday they acceded to the police's request to leave for good, but were harshly critical of the municipality's conduct.
In the Tel Aviv suburb of Bat Yam, eviction orders were issued against the encampment opposite city hall, but the occupants said they would not leave so easily. At the protest camp in Holon's Jesse Cohen neighborhood, where many of the activists are homeless, eviction orders were issued against improvised wooden structures.
The protesters demanded that the authorities provide housing and some threatened violence against the police.
Some activists from elsewhere around the country went to Holon and Bat Yam to show support for the protesters.
The Association for Civil Rights in Israel offered legal assistance to fight the eviction orders, saying the removal of the activists would infringe on their right to protest.
The association also approached Bat Yam Mayor Shlomi Lahiani and Shlomo Buhbut, the chairman of the Union of Local Authorities, demanding that the protesters not be evicted.
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