Israel's Supreme Court rejected on Sunday the state's petition to delay the razing of the West Bank settlement of Migron for another three and a half years, on the grounds that "all are subject to the law."

The Supreme Court, however, dictated that the settlement must be evacuated by Aug. 1.

Migron was ruled out as illegal by the Supreme Court in 2011 after it was decided that the settlement, home to about 300 people, was built on Palestinian private land and would be demolished this month.

Earlier this month, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's government managed to broker a deal with Migron's residents that would delay the demolition.

The state petitioned the Supreme Court an extension of three and a half years in order to give Migron's residents time to relocate to a permanent location only two kilometers away.

"This is an opportunity to say that the Government of Israel, like all citizens of Israel, respects the court's decisions and acts according to Israeli law. Sometimes even the obvious needs to be stated," Netanyahu said on Sunday, according to a statement sent to Xinhua.

Migron's residents bemoaned the outcome and claimed that their settlement is not illegal.

""We are confident that the government's representative Minister (Ze'ev Binyamin) Begin will find a suitable solution to the situation in which the state sends its loyal citizens to settle 'the land' and the court forces their eviction," Migron spokesman Itai Chamo told The Jerusalem Post.

However, Justices Asher Grunis, Mirian Naro and Salim Joubran, who rejected the government's bid, defended their decision on the grounds that "no one has the authority to permit the construction of a settlement on private land."

The settlement of Migron was built in 1999 and in 2006 rights group Peace Now filed a petition to the Supreme Court asking for its demolition.

Following the court's decision in 2011, a string of violent incidents against the Israeli army and left-wing activists were allegedly carried out by settlers protesting the impending razing.