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Israeli court orders settlers quit Hebron building
JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israel's High Court on Sunday gave Jewish settlers three days to vacate a building they have been occupying for the past 19 months in the West Bank city of Hebron or face eviction.
Jewish settler leaders called on Prime Minister Ehud Olmert to meet them and delay implementing the ruling.
About 150 settlers, some of them armed, moved into the building, along a seam line with Palestinian neighborhoods, in March 2007, saying they had purchased it from its Palestinian owner.
The Palestinian told Israeli authorities he had agreed to sell the house to the settlers in 2004 but later returned down payments and canceled the deal.
Hebron, in the occupied West Bank, has been a flashpoint of Israeli-Palestinian violence. Some 650 settlers live in fortified enclaves guarded by Israeli troops in the heart of the city of 180,000 Palestinians.
The Israeli military had told settlers in the building, which they dubbed "House of Peace," to leave, and they appealed to the High Court against eviction.
In rejecting the settlers' petition, the court said they would have to vacate the structure within three days. It granted the Israeli government guardianship over the building until a legal dispute over its ownership is resolved in a lower court.
(Writing by Joseph Nasr; Editing by Charles Dick)
