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| Israeli forces evict Jewish settlers |
| 2006-05-08 |
| Israeli police stormed a Palestinian house in the West Bank city of Hebron on Sunday to evict Jewish settlers accused of squatting there, in an early test for the new government of Prime Minister Ehud Olmert. Police persuaded three settler families including women and children to leave, but had to drag or carry out two dozen teenage supporters who were holed up inside the house, near a heavily fortified Jewish settlement in the biblical city. Security forces had scuffled with scores of settlers outside after some threw Molotov cocktails from the roof of the three-storey building and others hurled rocks. Police arrested 19 settlers, while 17 policemen were lightly injured. Israel's new prime minister, Ehud Olmert, told his cabinet at its first meeting on Sunday that Israel would not allow illegal West Bank settlement outposts to remain, his office said. |
| Posted by:Fred |