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width="1" height="1" //divpIsraeli riot police today dragged hundreds of militant Jewish settlers
from a disputed house in the city of Hebron, in the first major such eviction on the West Bank for
more than two years./ppSecurity forces used teargas as they surrounded the three-storey property
set on a hillside in a Palestinian district of Hebron. The settlers responded by throwing rocks and
eggs./ppIt took the police about an hour to carry the more than 200 settlers from the house, each
dragged away by teams of four officers. Around 20 people were injured, ambulance staff said,
although most were not seriously hurt./ppThe house, located near the Jewish settler community of
Kiryat Arba, has become an important symbol for settler groups since around a dozen families
occupied it in March 2007. Such groups believe all occupied Palestinian territories should be
subsumed into a greater Israel./ppThe families said they bought it legally from the Palestinian
owner, who denied the claim. Israel's supreme court ordered last month that the house should be
cleared./ppSince then, many other settlers have come to live in the home, covered with posters in
Hebrew displaying slogans including "This land is our land" and "Human rights for Jews in
Hebron"./ppThe mayor of Kiryat Arba, Malichi Levinger, warned that the families would attempt to
return. "I think we come back to this house. That is our goal for now," he said./ppNadia Matar, one
of the leaders of those inside the house, who was among the last dragged out, said: "Shame on the
government for using this force against us."/ppToday's action was the first major West Bank
evacuation since Israeli security forces cleared parts of the Amona settlement in February 2006.
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