Jerusalem, December 02: Israeli settlers say police have arrested the mayor of a West Bank Jewish community after settlers blocked security from enforcing a construction freeze.
Settler spokesman Yishai Hollender say police apprehended Avi Naim for disrupting a police officer in the line of duty.
He said Naim and a group of settlers blocked the entrance to their Beit Arieh settlement in the central West Bank on Wednesday when troops arrived to hand out orders to cease construction at the site.
Last week, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced a 10-month halt to settlement construction in an effort to jump-start peace talks with the Palestinians.
West Bank settlers have rejected the plan and confronted army and police forces in recent days.
—-Agencies