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Hebron settlers to be evicted within 12 days
JERUSALEM - Israeli police should evict Jewish settlers from a house in the West Bank town of Hebron within the next 12 days, deputy defence minister Ephraim Sneh said on Friday. The hardline settlers took over the house on March 19 claiming that they had bought it -- a charge rejected as a lie by the Palestinian owners. About 200 Jewish settlers moved in to the three-storey building on a road linking Hebron to the Jewish settlement of Kiryat Arba.This presence in the heart of Hebron is illegal, Sneh said on public radio, stressing that the settlers should be moved out by police between now and April 18. Sneh said that any real estate transaction in the West Bank must have the approval of the Israeli civil administration in the Palestinian territory which was not the case with the house involved. Hebron has long been a flashpoint between Palestinians and Israelis. Under an agreement with the Palestinian Authority, Israel evacuated 80 percent of Hebron in 1997, leaving a settlement of several hundred Jewish settlers, protected by its soldiers, around the Tomb of the Patriarchs, a site holy to both Jews and Muslims. Posted by: Steve White 2007-04-07 |
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