TEL AVIV, January 19, 2010 (WAFA) - Israeli security forces on Tuesday dismantled a caravan set up in the West Bank Settlement of Alon Moreh, daily Haaretz said today.

Despite the Israeli  government's declaration last year of a 10-month construction freeze, this was the first time a structure built to contravene the settlement freeze has been razed.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced in last December that Israel would impose a 10-month freeze on construction in West Bank settlements, saying the move was a bid to restart stalled peace talks with the Palestinians.

Settlement building has been a key sticking point in U.S. efforts to restart Middle East peace talks.

After the caravan in Alon Moreh was built, residents held an event at which they called the construction an 'appropriate Zionist response' to the settlement freeze order.

Israeli Security forces arrived before dawn on Tuesday and dismantled the caravan. They also destroyed the foundations of structures in the Kochav Yaakov and Kochav Hashahar settlements which were built in contradiction of the freeze order.