Israeli security forces evicted dozens of Jewish settlers from two homes in the heart of the West Bank city of Hebron on Friday, a day after they had moved in. Dozens of settlers left the house on Friday morning, carrying their possessions and accompanied by Israeli border police, an AFP photographer on the scene said.
Police later welded the doors of the homes shut, the photographer said.
Police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld confirmed 80 people had been removed from the homes, with the evacuation occurring without incident. The buildings stand near a religious site known to Jews as the Cave of the Patriarchs and to Muslims as the Ibrahimi Mosque in the heart of the flashpoint southern West Bank city. The families had only moved in on Thursday after buying the homes from Palestinian families, the settlers said.